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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Cc: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org>,
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	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv10 man-pages 5/5] execveat.2: initial man page for execveat(2)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 22:33:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150109223300.GO22149@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150109221728.GW4574@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 05:17:28PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > Back then the procfs-free environments had been pushed as a serious argument
> > in favour of merging the damn thing.  Now you guys turn around and say that
> > we not only need procfs mounted, we need a yet-to-be-added kludge in there
> > to cope with the actual intended uses.
> 
> Reverting does not fix the problem. There is no way to make fexecve
> work for scripts without kernel support, and the needed kernel support
> without fexecve would be even nastier, since handling of /proc/self/fd
> magic-symlinks would need to be special-cased. The added fexecveat
> syscall supports fully /proc-less operation for non-scripts.

Oh, yes it does.  It's not *our* problem if it's out of tree and not
a part of ABI.  That way if you need it, *you* get to come up with clean
implementation.  If it's in-tree you get leverage to push ugly kludges
further in.  And frankly, I don't trust you to abstain from using that
leverage in rather nasty ways.

Out of curiosity, how would you expect that "open only once" to work?
All reliable variants I see are beyond sick...

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-09 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-24 11:53 [PATCHv10 0/5] syscalls,x86,sparc: Add execveat() system call David Drysdale
2014-11-24 11:53 ` [PATCHv10 1/5] syscalls: implement " David Drysdale
2014-11-24 11:53 ` [PATCHv10 2/5] x86: Hook up execveat " David Drysdale
     [not found]   ` <1416830039-21952-3-git-send-email-drysdale-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-24 12:45     ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-24 17:06   ` Dan Carpenter
2014-11-24 18:26     ` David Drysdale
     [not found]       ` <CAHse=S-DS=NGC619Uhzkbd-EKa0D+HgBq3rE1czmLdoxAFswPg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-25 12:16         ` Dan Carpenter
2014-11-24 18:53     ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-24 11:53 ` [PATCHv10 3/5] syscalls: add selftest for execveat(2) David Drysdale
2014-11-24 11:53 ` [PATCHv10 4/5] sparc: Hook up execveat system call David Drysdale
2014-11-24 18:36   ` David Miller
2014-11-24 11:53 ` [PATCHv10 man-pages 5/5] execveat.2: initial man page for execveat(2) David Drysdale
2015-01-09 15:47   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-01-09 16:13     ` Rich Felker
     [not found]       ` <20150109161302.GQ4574-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-09 17:46         ` David Drysdale
     [not found]           ` <CAHse=S88Jy5ZKM_VY5onfvxX7dTMngnxuHfuLeSuzvKvQNP19A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-09 20:48             ` Rich Felker
2015-01-09 20:56               ` Al Viro
     [not found]                 ` <20150109205626.GK22149-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-09 20:59                   ` Rich Felker
     [not found]                     ` <20150109205926.GT4574-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-09 21:09                       ` Al Viro
2015-01-09 21:28                         ` Rich Felker
2015-01-09 21:50                           ` Al Viro
2015-01-09 22:17                             ` Rich Felker
2015-01-09 22:33                               ` Al Viro [this message]
2015-01-09 22:42                                 ` Rich Felker
     [not found]                                   ` <20150109224252.GY4574-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-09 22:57                                     ` Al Viro
2015-01-09 23:12                                       ` Rich Felker
2015-01-09 23:24                                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-01-09 23:37                                           ` Rich Felker
2015-01-10  0:01                                           ` Al Viro
2015-01-09 23:36                                         ` Al Viro
     [not found]                                           ` <20150109233644.GR22149-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-10  3:03                                             ` Al Viro
2015-01-10  3:41                                               ` Rich Felker
2015-01-10  4:14                                                 ` Al Viro
2015-01-10  5:57                                                   ` Rich Felker
2015-01-10 22:27                                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-01-11  1:15                                                       ` Rich Felker
2015-01-11  2:09                                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                                                           ` <87oaq6oypl.fsf-JOvCrm2gF+uungPnsOpG7nhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-11 11:02                                                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-12 14:18                             ` David Drysdale
     [not found]                           ` <20150109212852.GU4574-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-09 22:13                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-01-09 22:38                               ` Rich Felker
     [not found]                                 ` <20150109223843.GX4574-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-10  1:17                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                                     ` <87mw5rtowa.fsf-JOvCrm2gF+uungPnsOpG7nhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-10  1:33                                       ` Rich Felker
2015-01-12 11:33                                         ` David Drysdale
2015-01-12 16:07                                           ` Rich Felker
2015-01-10  7:13                               ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-01-09 21:20                     ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                       ` <877fwvy7ln.fsf-JOvCrm2gF+uungPnsOpG7nhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-09 21:31                         ` Rich Felker
2015-01-10  7:43             ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-01-10  8:27           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-01-10 13:31             ` Rich Felker
2015-01-10  7:38       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-01-09 18:02     ` David Drysdale
     [not found]       ` <CAHse=S9kRj00eRbB+7DQd39Cso1O2LcmZpBVCbuUa9EwRQKv_w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-10  7:56         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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