From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2-ptrace_multi
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 22:17:30 +0200
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On Friday 19 May 2006 22:15, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:45:34PM +0200, Renzo Davoli wrote:
> > #ifndef mem_write
> > /* This is a security hazard */
> 
> I believe the conclusion, when this was last discussed, was that this
> is not true and could be fixed.

iirc the main problem was mmap of /proc/*/mem. write can be probably 
enabled after some auditing.

Alan hacked on this iirc so he might comment.

-Andi
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