Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1]
Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Thu, 20 May 1999 12:21:32 -0400
Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> Why it is it impossible to apply to existing executables? Sure, you'd
> have to pull apart the ELF executable and add some extra code (which
> would obviously be architecture speccific, since it would include
> machine code) to the text segment, but I don't think it's *impossible*.
I hope that, if this is done, it's well documented.
Right now ELF is poorly abstracted on linux.
--
Raul
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