Re: [PATCH] [SECURITY] suid procs exec'd with bad 0,1,2 fds

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:15:48 +0100 (BST)

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> > Actually a _lot_ of people run the non-excutable stack and related
> > patches. They don't break anything, they stop a lot of the "I read bugtraq
>
> As I remember, they broke gdb.
> I saw some other funny effects later and backed them out.

The original version broke ptrace on chips that didn't clear the unused
parts of a selector. That was fixed ages ago

Alan

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