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From: Nick.Holloway@pyrites.org.uk (Nick Holloway)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modprobe local root exploit
Date: 14 Nov 2000 12:28:24 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8urb58$k07$1@alfie.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14864.6812.849398.988598@ns.caldera.de> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011131655430.22139-100000@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> <14864.12007.216381.254700@ns.caldera.de>

duwe@caldera.de (Torsten Duwe) writes:
> Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org> writes:
> > What's wrong with isalnum() ?
> 
> Hm, must admit that I wasn't 100% sure if that's in the kernel lib or an evil
> gcc expands it inline to some static array lookup. Now I see that it's
> already in the kernel. Do some of you also sometimes wonder why the kernel is
> so big ;-) ?

Someone could make it a bit smaller by patching fs/jffs/interp.c and
arch/ppc/xmon/xmon.c to use the kernel lib, rather than their own
versions.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-11-14 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-13 14:37 Modprobe local root exploit Gregory Maxwell
2000-11-13 16:26 ` Torsten Duwe
2000-11-13 16:44   ` Francis Galiegue
2000-11-13 16:45     ` Torsten Duwe
2000-11-13 16:56       ` Chris Evans
2000-11-13 17:21         ` Jan Dvorak
2000-11-13 18:11         ` Torsten Duwe
2000-11-14  5:02           ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-14  5:50             ` Keith Owens
2000-11-14  9:19               ` Florian Weimer
2000-11-14 10:42               ` Malcolm Beattie
2000-11-14 10:54                 ` Jakub Jelinek
2000-11-14 11:58                   ` Chris Evans
2000-11-14 10:58                 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-14 12:28           ` Nick Holloway [this message]
2000-11-14 14:01           ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-14  1:35         ` Horst von Brand
2000-11-13 19:46       ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-14 11:29         ` Daniel Phillips
2000-11-14 14:23           ` Daniel Phillips
2000-11-14 16:25           ` David Relson
2000-11-15  4:09           ` Horst von Brand
2000-11-16  5:22       ` Alan Cox
2000-11-16  6:04         ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-16  6:14           ` Keith Owens
2000-11-16  6:16             ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-16 14:12         ` Torsten Duwe
2000-11-16 15:07           ` Alan Cox

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