Re: coreutils-5.92 - tests/cp/fail-perm fails when run as root

[Theodoros V. Kalamatianos]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Paul Eggert wrote:

> I'm pretty sure that Mandrake's policy of not letting programs look at
> /proc/self will break a lot of other software in possibly-subtle ways,
> so could you please report it as a bug?  I don't see any reason why a
> process shouldn't be able to look at /proc/self/fd.  Certainly glibc
> itself uses /proc/self/fd in places other than its implementation of
> futimes.

Actually I just verified that this happens in the two highest security 
levels (4 and 5) even for Mandriva 2006, so I guess this problem exists 
for all Mandrake/Mandriva versions in-between. I will file this as a bug 
ASAP, but better be safe than sorry :-|


Regards,

Theodoros Kalamatianos