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List:       fuse-devel
Subject:    Re: [fuse-devel] Application searching for random files in FUSE
From:       Vlad <vladc6 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2008-02-18 19:56:05
Message-ID: 533240.60592.qm () web54404 ! mail ! yahoo ! com
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--- Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> > When the current directory is the mountpoint of a FUSE filesystem,
> > running any commands in bash causes the following calls to be made
> to
> > the filesystem:
> > 
> > 1) getattr() is called for "/tls" eight times.
> > 2) getattr() is called for "/i686" four times.
> > 3) getattr() is called for "/sse2" four times.
> > 4) getattr() is called for "/cmov" once.
> > 5) getattr() is called for "/libc.so.6" once
> > 
> > Has anyone else experienced this? The fact that an application is
> > looking for these files in the FUSE filesystem makes me think that
> the
> > application has a bug. How can I find out what application is
> making
> > these calls?
> 
> You probably have "." in your library search path somewhere
> ($LD_LIBRARY_PATH?).  Which is not a very good idea, from a security
> POV.

$LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't contain ".", but it ends in a colon ":".
Apparently, removing that colon prevents the library searching in the
current directory.

Thanks,
Vlad


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