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Subject: Re: dangerous?
From: Mitchell Blank Jr (mitchsfgoth.com)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 16:50:07 CDT


Chris Evans wrote:
> Can anyone think of anything exciting to do with this?
>
> mknod pipe p
>
> then write a program which does uselib("./pipe") - any type of inode is
> accepted

I can't. With the sole exception of non-page-aligned aout libraries,
the above would probably die in do_mmap. Even with non-page-aligned
aout I don't see any special dangers (at least nothing worse than calling
uselib on any other file you control).

-Mitch