Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] honour MNT_NOEXEC for access() | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:32:44 +0200 |
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On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 23:14 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > Hello. > > Ulrich Drepper wrote: > >> Now, as the access(X_OK) is fixed, would it be > >> feasible for ld.so to start using it? > > Just must be kidding. No access control can be reliably implemented at > > userlevel. There is no point starting something as stupid as this. > But in this case how can you ever solve the > problem of ld.so executing the binaries for which > the user does not have an exec permission? > Yes, the userspace apps usually should not enforce > the kernel's access control,
correct
> but ld.so seems to be > the special case - it is a kernel helper after all,
in what way is ld.so special in ANY way?
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