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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Cc: User Mode Linux Maintainers
	<pkg-uml-pkgs@lists.alioth.debian.org>,
	pkg-sysvinit-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org,
	Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>,
	UML-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:59:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060929185934.GB8051@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060929174601.GF13444@inferi.kami.home>

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:46:01PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> Thinking of a Debian only fix for the above, does simply playing with
> default_tmpdir in arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c (probably in which_tmpdir())
> suffice to use /lib/init/rw/.ramfs as default?
> 
> (Yes I should try it... will try to find some time next week)

What difference would this make?  You still have some world-writable place
not mounted noexec that nasty people could try to take advantage of.  You're
just changing the name of that place.

				Jeff

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-29 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2flhcyrq2nr.fsf@saruman.uio.no>
2006-09-28 19:47 ` [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/? Mattia Dongili
2006-09-28 20:19   ` Petter Reinholdtsen
2006-09-29  7:17     ` Mattia Dongili
2006-09-28 21:51   ` Jeff Dike
2006-09-29 17:46     ` Mattia Dongili
2006-09-29 18:59       ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2006-09-29 19:52         ` [uml-devel] [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-09-30 12:34       ` [uml-devel] " Blaisorblade
2006-09-30 12:36   ` Blaisorblade

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