From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] honour MNT_NOEXEC for access()
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:17:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4526C7F4.6090706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160170464.12835.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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Alan Cox wrote:
> I doubt anyone uses access() any more for anything but this doesn't seem
> to conflict with the POSIX spec.
Well, there are cases where access is used (libc, for instance, uses it
instead of an open for files which most likely don't exist since access
if faster than a failed open call).
The change itself is conceptually correct. I haven't looked at the
technical details but it looks OK.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-06 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-23 10:30 [patch] remove MNT_NOEXEC check for PROT_EXEC mmaps Stas Sergeev
2006-09-23 15:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-09-23 15:36 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-09-23 15:47 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-25 1:12 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-25 4:35 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-23 15:42 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-23 16:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-09-23 16:38 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-23 18:58 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-24 6:55 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-24 9:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-09-24 10:00 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-24 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-24 14:54 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-24 15:48 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-09-24 16:31 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-24 16:49 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-09-24 17:04 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-24 18:09 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-24 19:14 ` David Wagner
2006-09-24 19:37 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-09-24 22:49 ` David Wagner
2006-09-25 10:53 ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-25 21:36 ` David Wagner
2006-09-27 11:51 ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-24 20:06 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-09-24 20:22 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-24 23:04 ` David Wagner
2006-09-26 19:46 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-27 22:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-27 23:10 ` David Wagner
2006-09-27 23:38 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-09-29 1:14 ` David Wagner
2006-09-28 4:52 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-30 9:42 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-03 15:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-03 17:15 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-03 17:23 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-03 18:06 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-03 19:19 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-03 19:40 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-03 19:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-04 19:36 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-04 21:31 ` David Wagner
2006-10-04 3:11 ` David Wagner
2006-10-04 3:51 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-04 4:21 ` David Wagner
2006-10-04 6:03 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-10-04 17:30 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-03 18:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-03 18:40 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-03 18:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-03 19:07 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-03 21:00 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-10-04 19:06 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-06 18:09 ` [patch] honour MNT_NOEXEC for access() Stas Sergeev
2006-10-06 21:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-06 21:17 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2006-10-07 11:19 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-07 15:00 ` David Wagner
2006-10-07 16:31 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-07 19:14 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-07 19:36 ` David Wagner
2006-10-08 8:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-08 9:11 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-08 10:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-08 13:46 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-09 2:09 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-10-09 4:40 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-07 13:18 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-08 0:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-08 9:10 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-08 9:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-08 10:36 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-08 10:39 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-08 13:22 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-10-06 22:26 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-04 19:30 ` [patch] remove MNT_NOEXEC check for PROT_EXEC mmaps Stas Sergeev
2006-10-04 3:20 ` David Wagner
2006-10-04 3:17 ` David Wagner
2006-10-04 13:41 ` Jeff Dike
2006-10-04 18:02 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-04 19:48 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-27 19:16 ` [patch] remove MNT_NOEXEC check for PROT_EXEC MAP_PRIVATE mmaps Stas Sergeev
2006-09-27 20:05 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-09-28 4:33 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-28 16:42 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-09-29 1:41 ` David Wagner
2006-09-29 20:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-29 16:54 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-24 19:59 ` [patch] remove MNT_NOEXEC check for PROT_EXEC mmaps Alan Cox
2006-09-24 20:07 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-24 0:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-25 17:17 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-25 17:43 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-09-25 20:12 ` David Wagner
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