Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:51:28 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [Question] New mmap64 syscall? |
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On Thu 2017-01-12 17:13:25, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 01/03/2017 09:54 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > >...actually, with strace and batched interface, it will be impossible > >to see what is going on because of races. So I'm not sure if I like > >the batched interface at all... > > I'm not sure if I understand this problem. > > ioctl, fcntl, most socket system calls, even open all have this problem as > well, right?
Yes, ioctl() and similar are problematic. Still it is possible to implement secure sandbox using ptrace. Dealing with indirect mmap() would difficult AFAICT.
Pavel
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