From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 16 18:20:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ish7.ericsson.com.au (ish7.ericsson.com.au [203.61.155.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B82A37B401 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 18:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brsf10.epa.ericsson.se (brsf10 [146.11.8.4]) by ish7.ericsson.com.au (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5H1IEg04236 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:18:14 +1000 (EST) Received: from eaubrnt019.epa.ericsson.se (eaubrnt019.epa.ericsson.se [146.11.9.165]) by brsf10.epa.ericsson.se (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5H1Jt414934 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:19:55 +1000 (EST) Received: by eaubrnt019.epa.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:19:55 +1000 Message-ID: <4B6BC00CD15FD2119E5F0008C7A419A514C8BB33@eaubrnt018.epa.ericsson.se> From: "Johny Mattsson (EPA)" To: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: rtld-elf patches for non-i386 architectures (review / test r Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:19:53 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2159D.156BCBB0" 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 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2159D.156BCBB0 Content-Type: text/plain 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 > > < > 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 > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2159D.156BCBB0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: rtld-elf patches for non-i386 architectures (review / test = r

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


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