Re: [PATCH]: non-readable binaries - binfmt_misc 2.6.0-test4

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 23:12, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> what non-readable files need to be interpreted/executed?
> why is this case relevant?
> why not simply make it user-land readable?

If you are running binaries for another architecture via software
emulation (for example qemu running x86 binaries on your S/390 
transparently) then you want exec only binaries to work with an
otherwise trusted interpreter [Getting the interpreter trust stuff
right is really hard btw - so ironically it probably has to be setuid
anyway so you can't steal the handle]


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