On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
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> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
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> > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Aloni wrote:
> > > > without breaking anything. It also reports of such calls by using printk.
> > > Get real.
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> > Why do you always have to be insulting alex? Sheesh.
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> Sigh... Not intended to be an insult. Plain and simple advice. Idea is
> broken for absolutely obvious reasons (namely, every real-life program
This doesnt stop syscalls, only syscalls from writable areas.
> contains at least one syscall that it _can_ execute). Expecting _any_
> part of userland to be rewritten into the form that would not have
> such places (i.e. all IO is done by trusted processes that poll
> memory areas shared with the programs needing said IO, exit is done
> either by explicit kill() from another process or by dumping core, signals
> are done by putting request into shared area and letting a trusted process
> do the thing, etc.) warrants such suggestion, doesn't it? If somebody
> seriously believes that it can be done (and that's the only way how this
> patch could give any protection)... Well, scratch "get real", I've got a
> nice bridge for sale.
That's a bit OTT, no? ;)
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