[Nautilus-list] [PATCH] Infinite loop in nautilus (under patched kernel, but still....)

[Gianni Tedesco "(Scaramanga)" <gianni ecsc co uk>]

Hi,

Having downloaded the latest nautilus (RPM), i noticed that it only
ran as root, under a user it stopped loading and used 100% CPU. A strace
quickly pinned down the problem:

open("/proc/1/stat", O_RDONLY)          = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
open("/proc/1/stat", O_RDONLY)          = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
open("/proc/1/stat", O_RDONLY)          = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
etc....

I custom patched my kernel to only allow users access to their own
processes in /proc. This error should NOT cause the program to loop.
I believe this to be the fix, but I haven't checked it. (looks obvious
to me)

--- nautilus.orig/libnautilus-extensions/nautilus-medusa-support.c 	Tue Mar  6 00:12:56 2001
+++ nautilus/libnautilus-extensions/nautilus-medusa-support.c 	Wed Mar 21 23:51:12 2001
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@
 			g_free (stat_file_name);
 
 			if (stat_file == NULL) {
+				file = readdir (proc_directory);
 				continue;
 		}

Please CC any reply to me, I'm not on the list.

Kind regards.

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// Gianni Tedesco <gianni ecsc co uk>