Re: fexecve, round 2

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:39:36PM +0000, Julian Yon wrote:
> No, Emmanuel is right: "[...] use the O_EXEC flag when opening fd. In
> this case, the application will not be able to perform a checksum test
> since it will not be able to read the contents of the file." You can
> open with --x but (correctly) you can't read from the file.

And it means the standard mandates that one can execute without
read access. Weird.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost