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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  3 Jan 2009 16:46:47 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] directly opening Plan9 devices
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> while replying to Nathaniel's post it dawned on
> me that something like this:
>     open("#c/cons", OWRITE|OCEXEC);
> completely breaks the paradigm of namespaces.
>
> IOW, if I wanted to construct a namespace with
> a specially crafted server offering /dev/cons,
> the above would easily break out of that jail.

see RFNOMNT in rfork(2).

- erik