From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Subject: Re: Feature request: exec self for NOMMU.
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:29:15 -0500
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       David McCullough <david_mccullough@au.securecomputing.com>
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On Wednesday 27 December 2006 1:08 am, Vadim Lobanov wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 00:51 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:13 am, Ray Lee wrote:
> > > How about openning an fd to yourself at the beginning of execution, then
> > > calling fexecve later?
> > 
> > I haven't got a man page for fexecve.  Does libc have it?
> 
> It's implemented inside glibc, and uses /proc to execve() the file that
> the fd points to.

Cute, and I can do that.  Assuming /proc is mounted in the chroot 
environment...

Rob
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