On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:46:06PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >This is the first in a series of patches fixing security holes >associated with the file mappings in the core of Cygwin. >I hope the explanations below are clear!
Yes they are, thanks. I can't comment on the security stuff but everything else looks good to me. I'll let Corinna have the final say on this. I wonder if it is time to bite the bullet and get rid of user-mode mounts entirely. Or maybe disallow them in suid'ed sessions? They are always going to be a security hole AFAICT. cgf
