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From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: O_ANY  [was: Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sendpath()]]
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:40:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010116154013.C32180@convergence.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010116061342.C12650@cadcamlab.org> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101161329230.947-100000@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101161329230.947-100000@elte.hu>; from mingo@elte.hu on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:33:44PM +0100

Thus spake Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu):
> if you read my (radical) proposal, the identification is based on a kernel
> pointer and a 256-bit random integer. So non-negative integers are not
> needed. (file-IO system-calls would be modified to detect if 'Unix file
> descriptors' or pointers to 'native file descriptors' are passed to them,
> so this is truly radical.)

Yuck, don't pass pointers in kernel space to user space!
NT does it and look what kernel call argument verification havoc it
wrought over them!

Felix
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-16 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-14 18:29 Is sendfile all that sexy? jamal
2001-01-14 18:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-14 19:02   ` jamal
2001-01-14 19:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-14 19:18       ` jamal
2001-01-14 20:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-14 20:38   ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-14 21:44     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-14 21:49       ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-14 21:54     ` Gerhard Mack
2001-01-14 22:40       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-14 22:45         ` J Sloan
2001-01-15 20:15           ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-01-15  3:43         ` Michael Peddemors
2001-01-15 13:02       ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-15 13:45         ` Tristan Greaves
2001-01-15  1:14   ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-15 15:24   ` Jonathan Thackray
2001-01-15 15:36     ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-15 20:17       ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-01-15 16:05     ` dean gaudet
2001-01-15 18:34       ` Jonathan Thackray
2001-01-15 18:46         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-15 20:47           ` [patch] sendpath() support, 2.4.0-test3/-ac9 Ingo Molnar
2001-01-16  4:51             ` dean gaudet
2001-01-16  4:59               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-16  9:48                 ` 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sendpath()] Ingo Molnar
2000-01-01  2:02                   ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-16 11:13                   ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-16 11:26                     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-16 11:37                       ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-16 12:04                         ` O_ANY [was: Re: 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sendpath()]] Ingo Molnar
2001-01-16 12:09                           ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-16 12:13                           ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-16 12:33                             ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-16 14:40                               ` Felix von Leitner [this message]
2001-01-16 12:34                           ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-16 13:00                           ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2001-01-16 13:57                   ` 'native files', 'object fingerprints' [was: sendpath()] Jamie Lokier
2001-01-16 14:27                   ` Felix von Leitner
2001-01-16 17:47                   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-17  4:39                   ` dean gaudet
2001-01-16  9:19               ` [patch] sendpath() support, 2.4.0-test3/-ac9 Ingo Molnar
2001-01-17  0:03                 ` dean gaudet
2001-01-15 18:58         ` Is sendfile all that sexy? dean gaudet
2001-01-15 19:41     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-15 20:33       ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-15 21:00         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-16 10:40         ` Felix von Leitner
2001-01-16 11:56           ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-16 12:37           ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-16 12:42           ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-16 12:47             ` Felix von Leitner
2001-01-16 13:48               ` Jamie Lokier
2001-01-16 14:20                 ` Felix von Leitner
2001-01-16 15:05                   ` David L. Parsley
2001-01-16 15:05                     ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-01-16 15:46                       ` David L. Parsley
2001-01-18 14:00                         ` Laramie Leavitt
2001-01-17 19:27                     ` dean gaudet
2001-01-24  0:58   ` Sasi Peter
2001-01-24  8:44     ` James Sutherland
2001-01-25 10:20     ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-25 10:58       ` Sasi Peter
2001-01-26  6:10         ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-26 11:46           ` David S. Miller
2001-01-26 14:12             ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-15 23:16 ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-16 13:47   ` jamal
2001-01-16 14:41     ` Pavel Machek

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