Back in March 2002, Wojciech Purczynski <cliph@isec.pl> wrote (original article at http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/264117 ): > Name: Linux kernel > Version: up to 2.2.20 and 2.4.18 > ... > In case of excessively long path names d_path kernel internal function > returns truncated trailing components of a path name instead of an error > value. As this function is called by getcwd(2) system call and > do_proc_readlink() function, false information may be returned to > user-space processes. The problem is still present in Debian 2.4.19 kernel. I have not tried 2.5, but see nothing relevant in the Changelogs at http://www.kernel.org/ . Cheers, Paul Szabo - psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia
