Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
04 Nov 2002 15:33:25 +0000


On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 14:50, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> This sounds like the right way to go. I do hope the configuration
> file includes an SHA checksum of the secutable. And to avoid race
> conditions, there really ought to be a new system call, fexecve(2)
> which takes an open file descriptor instead of a pathname.
> (Unfortunately, we're in feature freeze now, so that will have to wait
> until 2.7.)

execve /proc/self/fd/n ???

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