Re: LINUX 2.2 SECURITY: more clues

Jan Niehusmann (jan@gondor.com)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:36:04 +0100


On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 10:23:40AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 1. the core file is fresh - i.e. you run your cor.c program and then
> immediately do ldd core.
>
> 2. More importantly than 1., it happens when there is some swap space
> in use - and does not happen when 0 bytes of swap are in use.

I can't confirm these. Got reboots with an old core on a system that
didn't use swap (but had swap mounted)

Jan

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