linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:35:46 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@...lingofgreen.ru>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Wagner <daw@...berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness


> the core of the problem are the cores which are customarily
> dumped by lisps during the environment generation (or modification) stage,
> and then mapped back, every time the environment is invoked.

> 
> at the current step of evolution, those core files are not relocatable
> in certain natively compiling lisp systems.

nor will they work if the sysadmin applies a security update and glibc
or another library changes one page in size. Or changes the stack rlimit
or .. or ..

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