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Date:      Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:13:50 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -STABLE reboots
Message-ID:  <199710220213.MAA22074@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> The problem is more serious in -current, since mount(2) is unprivileged,
>> so even `mount /foo /foo' panics (if the mounter is root or owns /foo).
>
>Er... Isn't that easilly solvable by mount checking for the two arguments
>being the same?

Of course not, or it would have been fixed years ago.  `mkdir foo; ln foo
bar; mount foo bar' also panics.  Checking inodes isn't enough either,
since `mkdir foo foo/foo; mount foo/foo foo' also panics.

Bruce



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