From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:22:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:22:17 -0500 Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.89]:29702 "EHLO anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:22:02 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Nick.Holloway@pyrites.org.uk (Nick Holloway) Newsgroups: list.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Modprobe local root exploit Date: 14 Nov 2000 12:28:24 -0000 Organization: Alfie's Internet Node Message-ID: <8urb58$k07$1@alfie.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <14864.6812.849398.988598@ns.caldera.de> <14864.12007.216381.254700@ns.caldera.de> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #119 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org duwe@caldera.de (Torsten Duwe) writes: > Chris Evans 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. -- `O O' | Nick.Holloway@pyrites.org.uk // ^ \\ | http://www.pyrites.org.uk/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/