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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: >Which is why the kernel only allows it when the binary loader itself >sets the flag, because security-conscious application writers are >already aware of the "oh, a running binary may not be writable" issues. One of the methods I tried to use to stop a fork()-bomb was to zero the executable in question to force it to crash. No such luck, reboot it was. Not that I can think of any other useful application of said behavior. -- George Greer, greerga@m-l.org http://www.m-l.org/~greerga/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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