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From: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
To: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: Immutable flags (was: Re: WARNING: botched ld.so commit! :-()
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On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Michael Hancock wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> > Ummm, INITIAL_IMMUTABLE_LEVEL?  This doesn't mean anything to me.
> 
> It was just a suggestion for a kernel config opt.
> 
> BSDI and NetBSD uses INSECURE, but this convention would surprise many
> people.  I would like to have an option, I don't really care what it is
> called.
> 
> /kernel is marked immutable.  I'd like to be able to configure systems
> such that you can't change the flags unless you are in single user mode
> even if you're root.
> 

I think this is an excellent idea!

Tom