Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:29:57 -0700 From: "Richard Childers" <rchilders@hamquist.com> To: "Paul Hart" <hart@iserver.com> Cc: <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: some nice advice.... Message-ID: <37694CB5.9619C283@hamquist.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990617122502.674B-100000@anchovy.orem.iserver.com>
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Paul Hart suggests: "I might be wrong, but with the advent of sophisticated virtual memory systems, aren't sticky bits on executables essentially ignored these days? I thought that good VM systems made sticky bits on executables basically useless now." I wonder the same question; this was an idea I came up with a few years ago, but I see that BSD 4.4 introduced a few new things that, frankly, I am only beginning to hear about now. (For example, chflags(2).) -- richard Paul Hart wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Richard Childers wrote: > > > I have speculated about building a system with a vast amount of RAM, > > setting the sticky bit on selected executables to make them > > memory-resident, > > I might be wrong, but with the advent of sophisticated virtual memory > systems, aren't sticky bits on executables essentially ignored these days? > I thought that good VM systems made sticky bits on executables basically > useless now. > > Paul Hart > > -- > Paul Robert Hart ><8> ><8> ><8> Verio Web Hosting, Inc. > hart@iserver.com ><8> ><8> ><8> http://www.iserver.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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