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Date:      Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:52:05 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        kan@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fdlopen(3)
Message-ID:  <29458.1325263925@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:46:53 %2B0200." <20111230164653.GQ50300@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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In message <20111230164653.GQ50300@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>, Kostik Belousov 
writes:

>> Has anybody racked their brains to make sure this doesn't have security
>> implications ?
>
>I am wondering what kind of security consequences you have in mind ?

I don't have anything specifically in mind, but adding a new way to
communicate executable code always trigger my "is that really a good
idea" detector...


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