Re: Misc Fixes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 14 Jul 1996 16:47:25 +0100 (BST)

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> So we have to implement some `immutable memory' mechanism. once the
> securelevel is set, it has to be (and the whole page) turned to readonly.
> What a waste of valuable memory ! (I hear people complain about kernel
> bloat once again :-)

No because then I patch references to securelevel by dereferencing offsets
from stuff like sys_open(). We do want an immutable kernel scheme, but thats
called "disable module loading".

Alan

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