Besides:
- the noexec patch doesn't violate any UNIX standard
- the link patch violates a standard, but AFAIK, noone has actually found
a program that will break, and the one case that I have seen that will
break could be fixed easily with /proc tuning.
-Rob H.
On 30 Dec 1997, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> "YK" == Yuri Kuzmenko writes:
>
> YK> I run chown fido.uucp -R /var/spool/ifmail
> YK> (+ chmod g+rw) every 10 minutes from cron. Yes, I know, that is
> YK> not better solution.
>
> Please, do not violate UNIX standards! Change your scripts better!
> We do not need a "security" section in kernel which will be nothing more than
> violation of standards and bloating the kernel source. This thread is not really
> a kernel issue, and should be solved from user space!
>
> BTW, Happy New Year to all of you!
>
> Best regards, -- Vladimir.
> --
> I've got a very bad feeling about this.
> -- Han Solo
>