Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:46:09 +0100 | From | Alexander Kjeldaas <> | Subject | Re: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel |
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On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 12:19:21AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > shifted again and again. The replayer needs a table of every system call > > and how it affects memory, and that table needs more entries every week > > (thanks to ioctl). So I have a great demo, if you have 1.3.42 kernel > > headers to compile it against. > > This is something I've been pondering - strace has the same problems - it > does suggest their should be a single good syscall/ioctl definition somewhere >
And from time to time, security issues regarding ioctls that are not checking for privileges when they should are found. A central ioctl-directory is a good place to have privilege information too.
astor
-- Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway http://www.guardian.no/
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