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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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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