On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 12:48:19PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 21:41 +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > After a second thought, I do not like your proposal as well. +x is set for > > shebang scripts, and allowing PROT_EXEC to set VV_TEXT for them means > > that such scripts are subject for write denial. > > You say that like it's a bad thing. I hate it when I accidentally edit > a script that's running and then the script fails because I did. I > would be much happier if it acted just like any other executable and > prevented modification while it's running.
For me, if other user can block my modifications of my script by the mere fact that script has o+rx rights, is indeed bad. I do use real machines sometime.
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