From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263720AbTDGWOp (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 18:14:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263721AbTDGWOp (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 18:14:45 -0400 Received: from cpe-24-221-190-179.ca.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.190.179]:50621 "EHLO myware.akkadia.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263720AbTDGWOo (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 18:14:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3E91FAF0.4060400@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 15:25:52 -0700 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030406 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fredrik Tolf CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink References: <200304072255.47254.fredrik@dolda2000.cjb.net> <3E91F0FD.1040507@redhat.com> <200304080017.21799.fredrik@dolda2000.cjb.net> In-Reply-To: <200304080017.21799.fredrik@dolda2000.cjb.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fredrik Tolf wrote: > If I've missed the introduction of a fexecve syscall, I'm sorry for wasting > your time. There is no syscall. The people who don't want to use /proc for security reasons better come up with fixes to make it acceptable. The kernel lacks a number of syscalls which allow getting various pieces of information and the only way to implement the functionality is via /proc. The use of /proc is growing and you'll find that more than just fexecve() will fail if you don't have /proc. - -- - --------------. ,-. 444 Castro Street Ulrich Drepper \ ,-----------------' \ Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `--------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+kfrw2ijCOnn/RHQRArnmAJ4y6lXO3Msq3NvnnVLp/NHzJK6oUwCgvIFu Aw+0YsJzlYFtawxSjR5xPEQ= =SYEg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----