Prebinding for DragonFly/FreeBSD-4

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Tue Sep 16 16:15:11 PDT 2003


Lately Matthew Dillon told:

>     I recommend changing PREBIND_CKLEN() into an inline function and
>     adding as arguments the variables that were being assumed.  It
>     will be just as fast and a lot more human-readable.

I've changed this now.

>     Is SUID and SGID security being dealt with properly in regards to
>     the new environment variables?  We probably want to completely
>     disable any prebinding action on SUID and SGID programs.

Yes, we need to discuss this. I'd vote for that too, but this won't be
hard to add.

cheers,
  simon

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