From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 16 18:15:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 3412D37B40F; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 18:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 18:15:46 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: Garrett Wollman Cc: John Polstra , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rtld-elf patches for non-i386 architectures (review / test r Message-ID: <20020616181546.A63202@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <200206162211.g5GMBgri042006@apollo.backplane.com> <200206170113.g5H1Di6M087145@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200206170113.g5H1Di6M087145@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 09:13:44PM -0400 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , X-Affiliated-Projects: FreeBSD, xMach, ircd-hybrid-7 X-Towel: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Garrett Wollman escriurères > < 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 | 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