Subject: Re: Why doesn't modload remove linked modules?
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 11/03/1997 11:41:35
   In article <199711021650.RAA16839@jehova.owl.de>,
   	matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
   > putting things into /tmp by default seems like a nice way to
   > introduce a security problem....
   
   Modules are loaded before any network daemon or getty is started. So
   there is or a least should be no possibility to interfere.


sure, that works for /etc/rc.lkm.  i'd rather have modload remove
the post-linked object -- what's the point of keeping it around
*anyway* ?


.mrg.