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Date:      Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:51:20 +0200
From:      Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kmod.mk
Message-ID:  <20010814205118.B22531@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>
In-Reply-To: <200108090319.f793JgS63297@green.bikeshed.org>; from green@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:19:39PM -0400
References:  <bde@zeta.org.au> <200108090319.f793JgS63297@green.bikeshed.org>

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Thus spake Brian F. Feldman (green@FreeBSD.org):

> amazingly inconsistent... I can kldload ./file.ko, but not kldload file.ko, 
> though those are both correct relative paths.  kldload(8) should have 
> absolutely no trouble checking the cwd for existence of a path before giving 
> up.  Why don't we just replace that search algorithm with one less broken?  

This is a security issue.

Alex

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