>Number:         14756
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       /proc/<pid>/exe is not a symbolic link
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 28 00:38:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     TAMURA Kent
>Release:        NetBSD 20011108-1.5Y snapshot
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD gabi-n.hauN.org 1.5Y NetBSD 1.5Y (GABI-N) #7: Fri Nov 23 16:26:58 JST 2001     kent@lets:/home0/netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GABI-N i386

>Description:
On NetBSD with procfs enabled the linux option, /proc/<pid>/exe is
NOT a symbolic link to an executable file though it is a symbolic
link on Linux.

readlink("/proc/self/exe",...) is sometimes used as a way to get
a real path of executable file itself.

>How-To-Repeat:
NetBSD:
# mount -t procfs -o linux /proc /proc
# /bin/ls -l /proc/self/exe
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  288992 Nov  8 16:52 /proc/self/exe

RedHat Linux (kernel 2.2.17):
# /bin/ls -l /proc/self/exe
lrwx------   1 kent     hauN            0 Nov 28 17:34 /proc/self/exe -> /bin/ls

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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