[DGD] Re: What does normalize_path() do?

[Erwin Harte]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 03:01:21PM +0000, Robert Forshaw wrote:
> Is it anything like converting:
> 
> /././././sys/../sys/important_object_that_nobody_may_have_access_to.c
> 
> into /sys/important_object_that_nobody_may_have_access_to.c
> 
> To prevent people from bypassing security checks? I think it is but I'm not 
> 100%, so I'm asking. :)

What does it say in /kernel/sys/driver.c?  I think the description
there is sufficiently clear, and firing up a dgd instance with the
kernel-lib to try it isn't that hard so you could find out for
yourself how it works in practice.

Erwin.
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Erwin Harte <harte at is-here.com>
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