On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:03:09 -0600 Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew wrote: > > What are those (unidentified) add-on features doing at present? > > Patching calls into fork.c/exec.c/exit.c? > > Most likely. I suspect we have general agreement and awareness > that such patching is not something that sells well in Linux-land. > And for good reason in my personal view ... such patching by loadable > modules could open the door to compromising the integrity of Linux in > ways that could be dangerous. > err, no. What I meant was that the providers of these mystery features are presumably also patching into fork.c/exec.c/exit.c at the source code level so as to enable the mystery features within their overall kernel package. If so, this doesn't sounds terribly onerous. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
