From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 17 12:26:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from sfmailrelay.hamquist.com (sfmailrelay2.hamquist.com [199.108.89.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B324815024 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rchilders@hamquist.com) Received: from 172.19.6.48 by sfmailrelay.hamquist.com with SMTP ( WorldSecure Server SMTP Relay(WSS) v3.2 SR1); Thu, 17 Jun 99 12:25:40 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: c29e0ff2-e8b9-11d1-a493-00c04fbbd7d3 Received: from hamquist.com ([172.19.6.230]) by sfmail.hamquist.com ( Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA45E4; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:26:09 -0400 Message-ID: <37694CB5.9619C283@hamquist.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:29:57 -0700 From: "Richard Childers" Organization: hambrecht & quist, llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Paul Hart" Cc: Subject: Re: some nice advice.... References: X-WSS-ID: 1B77943E508483-01-02 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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