Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:09:59 +0200 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: Possible security hole? [was: verify_area(...) possible problem] |
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On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 05:08:50PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Oh, I was hoping the patch would actually fix the behaviour, rather than > > turning off clone :-) > > Noone uses clone, anyway ;-).
Multithreaded apps use clone() to create threads. At least on my glibc-2.0.7 system, pthread_create() uses the clone() syscall. I can hardly imagine any other possibility to create kernel handled threads, BTW.
OK, I admit, most apps are not multithreaded ...
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