Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 04:30:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 04:30:17 -0400 Received: from twilight.cs.hut.fi ([130.233.40.5]:52829 "EHLO twilight.cs.hut.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 04:30:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:30:19 +0300 From: Ville Herva To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? Message-ID: <20011004113019.L22640@niksula.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:15:01AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:15:01AM -0600, you [Eric W. Biederman] claimed: > > Where size is an issue, diet libc might be an alternative: http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/ (287kB statically linked zsh is not too shabby, I reckon.) That and things like busybox: http://busybox.lineo.com/ I have no suggestion wrt the kernel, though. -- v -- v@iki.fi - 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/