Subject: Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@feelingofgreen.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>
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Organization: Intel International BV
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:35:46 +0100
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> the core of the problem are the cores which are customarily
> dumped by lisps during the environment generation (or modification) stage,
> and then mapped back, every time the environment is invoked.

> 
> at the current step of evolution, those core files are not relocatable
> in certain natively compiling lisp systems.

nor will they work if the sysadmin applies a security update and glibc
or another library changes one page in size. Or changes the stack rlimit
or .. or ..

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