Re: [RFC][PATCH] scripts with stdin replaced
Mitchell Blank Jr (mitch@execpc.com)
Sun, 11 Jul 1999 11:47:23 -0500
Richard Guenther wrote:
> Patching binfmt_script did not work, as /proc is not mounted
> at early boot, so every script failed (tested it) and I dont
> know where and if to add magic checks to binfmt_script to check
> for "early boot stage". Btw. one really wants to carefully choose
> which interpreters are allowed to be called with suid-scripts.
> I personally wont let bash do it.
>
> Comments? Richard.
It'd be much better to make the path for "/dev/fd" a sysctl. Until it
is set, run as usual. Then binfmt_script would work... you'd just
have your boot scripts do:
mount /proc
echo "/dev/fd" > /proc/sys/kernel/dev_fd_path
...or something like that.
-Mitch
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