Re: [fuse-devel] Application searching for random files in FUSE filesystem

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> 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.

Miklos