Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 18:15:46 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rtld-elf patches for non-i386 architectures (review / test r Message-ID: <20020616181546.A63202@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <200206170113.g5H1Di6M087145@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 09:13:44PM -0400 References: <200206162211.g5GMBgri042006@apollo.backplane.com> <XFMail.20020616154641.jdp@polstra.com> <200206170113.g5H1Di6M087145@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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* Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> escriurères > <<On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 15:46:41 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> said: > > > page, so there's a (slight) risk that somebody could remove that > > feature in the future. > > To do so would be to introduce a security hole, so this risk is less > than slight. > > -GAWollman If someone were to do this, they'd have ot have a pretty good reason, and more over, would probably be told to just add a new flag, MAP_NOZERO or MAP_POSSIBLYDIRTY or something. I don't think it's really a threat likely to materialise. -- Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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