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

[Par Winzell]

> 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.

Nino means 'yes'. ;)

Zell

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