Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:02:25 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.conf Message-ID: <199812230502.VAA11013@apollo.backplane.com>
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:> capability transfer support in BSD - you pass an fd over a local
:> socket, using SCM_RIGHTS.
:...
:
:The BSD book describes a bug in the mark and sweep garbage collection
:algorithm than can result in file descriptor hijacking or kernel memory
:nasties. Does anyone know if this was ever fixed? (It is discussed in
:the 4.4BSD book in a footnote on the page that discusses SCM_RIGHTS) I
:glanced through the code for a while this summer while I was modifying the
:SCM_ ancillary data passing code to be hookable by an LKM. My goal was to
:...
I have no idea.... what does the footnote say exactly? Does it give
enough info to point us to a procedure or source file to look at ?
-Matt
: Robert N Watson
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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