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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	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>,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv10 man-pages 5/5] execveat.2: initial man page for execveat(2)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 03:02:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150111110256.GA18765@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oaq6oypl.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 08:09:10PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> In implementation /proc/self/exe is a named rather than a numbered file
> descriptor.  Essentially when loading an elf executable the file
> descriptor is duped to the name /proc/self/exe.  The implementation
> otherwise is the same as /proc/self/fd/N.
> 
> The downside of course is that I expect if we were actually to change
> /proc/self/exe from to point at the script instead of the shell some
> piece of software somewhere would come melting down.  I am totally not
> ready to consider that kind of mine field today.

We could add a /proc/self/script that points to the script, and either
is not available or still points to the executable if we are not running
a script.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-11 11:03 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
2014-11-24 12:45   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-24 17:06   ` Dan Carpenter
2014-11-24 18:26     ` David Drysdale
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
2015-01-09 17:46       ` David Drysdale
2015-01-09 20:48         ` Rich Felker
2015-01-09 20:56           ` Al Viro
2015-01-09 20:59             ` Rich Felker
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
2015-01-09 22:42                         ` Rich Felker
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
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
2015-01-11 11:02                                               ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-01-12 14:18                     ` David Drysdale
2015-01-09 22:13                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-01-09 22:38                     ` Rich Felker
2015-01-10  1:17                       ` Eric W. Biederman
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
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
2015-01-10  7:56       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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