Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242) → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of dev/snd/timer.

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242) → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of dev/snd/timer.
Date	2026-05-16 17:40 +0200
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On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 03:22:29PM -0000, CGS wrote:
> I upgraded 83 packages in Trixie just now (a version change apparently) and the
> message in the subject line appeared in the standard output.
> 
> What's canonicalization?

No idea what the error message is about, but at least a good guess as
to what canonicalization [1] means: it is what would transform, e.g.
/foo/./bar//baz to /foo/bar/baz.

Cheers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonicalization#Filenames
-- 
tomás

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Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242)  → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of  dev/snd/timer. CGS <etphonehomefrance@gmail.com> - 2026-05-16 17:30 +0200
  Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242) → /dev (owned by  root) during canonicalization of dev/snd/timer. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-16 17:40 +0200
  Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242) → /dev (owned by  root) during canonicalization of dev/snd/timer. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2026-05-16 17:40 +0200
    Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242)  → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of  dev/snd/timer. CGS <etphonehomefrance@gmail.com> - 2026-05-16 18:20 +0200
      Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242) → /dev (owned by  root) during canonicalization of dev/snd/timer. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2026-05-16 20:40 +0200
        Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242)  → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of  dev/snd/timer. CGS <etphonehomefrance@gmail.com> - 2026-05-17 16:50 +0200
      Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242) → /dev (owned by  root) during canonicalization of dev/snd/timer. Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2026-05-16 20:40 +0200
        Re: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 4242)  → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of  dev/snd/timer. CGS <etphonehomefrance@gmail.com> - 2026-05-17 16:50 +0200

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