Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries?

From: Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 04:46:00 EST

On Thu Oct 04, 2001 at 11:30:19AM +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:15:01AM -0600, you [Eric W. Biederman] claimed:
> >
> > <snip size of glibc>
>
> Where size is an issue, diet libc might be an alternative:
>
> http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/
>
> (287kB statically linked zsh is not too shabby, I reckon.)

uClibc is also a nice alternative. Works just great and uses glibc
header files. I only fully support shared libs on x86 and arm
at the moment.

http://cvs.uclinux.org/uClibc.html

(I need to update the webpage sometime)

> That and things like busybox:
>
> http://busybox.lineo.com/

Why thanks. I've sure worked hard to make it be nice and small...

 -Erik 

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