[patch] mmap() MAP_TEXT implementation (to use for shared libraries)

Ian Lepore freebsd at damnhippie.dyndns.org
Fri Sep 7 18:48:30 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 21:41 +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> After a second thought, I do not like your proposal as well. +x is set for
> shebang scripts, and allowing PROT_EXEC to set VV_TEXT for them means
> that such scripts are subject for write denial.

You say that like it's a bad thing.  I hate it when I accidentally edit
a script that's running and then the script fails because I did.  I
would be much happier if it acted just like any other executable and
prevented modification while it's running.

-- Ian




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