Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:19:53 +1000 From: "Johny Mattsson (EPA)" <Johny.Mattsson@ericsson.com.au> To: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: rtld-elf patches for non-i386 architectures (review / test r Message-ID: <4B6BC00CD15FD2119E5F0008C7A419A514C8BB33@eaubrnt018.epa.ericsson.se>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Is there anything preventing someone from just adding this constraint to the manpage? It appears to me this is a very good candidate for the solve-in-documentation approach. Cheers, /Johny PS. My apologies if this email is sent in a stupid HTML or such format, I'm stuck with M$ Exchange here at work, and turning off the exchange-isms aren't all that easy :-( > -----Original Message----- > From: Garrett Wollman [SMTP:wollman@lcs.mit.edu] > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 11:14 AM > To: John Polstra > Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: rtld-elf patches for non-i386 architectures (review / > test r > > <<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 > > [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2654.19"> <TITLE>RE: rtld-elf patches for non-i386 architectures (review / test r</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is there anything preventing someone from just adding this constraint to the manpage?</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It appears to me this is a very good candidate for the solve-in-documentation approach.</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers,</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">/Johny</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">PS. My apologies if this email is sent in a stupid HTML or such format, I'm stuck with</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">M$ Exchange here at work, and turning off the exchange-isms aren't all that easy :-(</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">-----Original Message-----</FONT> <BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">From: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Garrett Wollman [SMTP:wollman@lcs.mit.edu]</FONT> <BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Sent: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Monday, June 17, 2002 11:14 AM</FONT> <BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">To: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">John Polstra</FONT> <BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Cc: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG</FONT> <BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Subject: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Re: rtld-elf patches for non-i386 architectures (review / test r</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><<On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 15:46:41 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> said:</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> page, so there's a (slight) risk that somebody could remove that</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> feature in the future.</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To do so would be to introduce a security hole, so this risk is less</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">than slight.</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-GAWollman</FONT> </P> <BR> </BODY> </HTML>home | help
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