On 2026-07-20 11:22 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jul 2026 at 16:13, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This gives me the willies a bit. It's very cool, but it has some > > potential security issues that I think we need to watch out for. As > > sort-of prior art, NTFS supports alternate streams and Reiser4, ahem, > > supported files-as-directories. > > I realized that we can keep the creepiness factor minimal by > introducing this first in procfs only. That way zero changes are > needed in the path lookup code: > > sprintf(buf, "/proc/self/fd-alt/%d/%s", base_fd, alt_path); > alt_fd = open(buf, O_PATH);
I'm still vehemently opposed to stuffing more creepy apis into procfs. So this gets clear opposition from me.
