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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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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