Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink

Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-07T22:14:45Z

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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.

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