From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GTNbg-0006Ed-Ek for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:01:08 -0700 Received: from [198.99.130.12] (helo=saraswathi.solana.com) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1GTNbe-0001Ma-VM for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:01:08 -0700 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:59:34 -0400 From: Jeff Dike Message-ID: <20060929185934.GB8051@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> References: <2flhcyrq2nr.fsf@saruman.uio.no> <20060928194727.GC8519@inferi.kami.home> <20060928215143.GC6327@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <20060929174601.GF13444@inferi.kami.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060929174601.GF13444@inferi.kami.home> Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/? List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Mattia Dongili Cc: User Mode Linux Maintainers , pkg-sysvinit-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, Paolo Giarrusso , UML-devel , Petter Reinholdtsen 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel