Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:03:34 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Johan Myréen <> | Subject | Re: executable stacks, a few suggetions |
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> > I've sent a private Email to David suggesting that this feature > > could be enabled only when running with root privs (making it > > SUID/SGID only is not enough as a SUID program could run dozens of > > other programs which may be buggy). Then even if the feature was > > totally incompatible with Objective C (not that it is) this wouldn't > > be a problem as AFAIK no-one uses O-C to write system programs or > > other programs which need to run as root.
Do you really think it would be elegant and orthogonal etc. to suddenly have some programs fail mysteriously only when run as root, just because they happened to be written in Objective C / Pascal / whatever? IMHO, if this feature is that desperately needed, a cleaner solution would be to ban these programming languages from Linux altogther. And the crowd cheers... NOT!
I realize the proposed solution could contain a workaround for these programs, I'm just protesting against the "wouldn't be a problem" bit...
Johan Myreen jem@iki.fi
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