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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:23:30 +0300, Samium Gromoff said:
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> not "core-dumps" but "core files", in the lispspeak, but anyway.
>
> the reason is trivial -- if i can write programs enjoying setuid
> privileges in C, i want to be able to do the same in Lisp.

Go read up on how the XEmacs crew designed their "portable dumper",
specifically to get around a lot of these sorts of problems because the
old Emacs 'unexec' code was incredibly fragile.

> the only way to achieve this i see, is to directly setuid root
> the lisp system executable itself -- because the lisp code
> is read, compiled and executed in the process of the lisp
> system executable.

If that's the only way you can see to do it, maybe you should think a
bit harder before making kernel hacks to do something.




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