Subject: Re: pwd returning duplicate directory in path
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/13/2004 17:10:07
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:48:06AM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Do you have an off-local-disk copy of your mtree database?
> 
> (Even if you don't, yet, make a backup now on removable media after
> copying it to a system that you know you can trust--probably by
> installing fresh on it right now--and then run mtree.)
> 
> This smells like an exploit to me, but I'm paranoid.

This is what I though at first, as I discovered this from ssh.
But after looking at the behavoir, I think it's more like a bug in
a cache somewhere in the kernel.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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