prelink should not mess with running executables

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Jul 17 23:56:52 UTC 2012


Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> said:
> Chris Adams writes:
> >Is there any value in this "additional check" (that nobody else
> >apparently does)?  Do you not trust the kernel's credential handling?
> 
> I certainly trust it. But just because I trust it, it doesn't mean that any 
> additional checks have no value.

Sure it does.  If the credentials are always correct, additional checks
past that are a waste of cycles.  I ask again: do you have a legitimate
use case?  Is there _any_ case that other checks can succeed that this
invented test of yours would catch?
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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