[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#386368: /dev/shm or /run/shm is still not mounted with noexec

[Roger Leigh]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 08:48:07AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On 7 Jun 2010 the last update said shm would be noexec again.
> 
> Is it still going to happen?

Can't see why not.  We've removed all the abusers of the /dev/shm
namespace, so should be safe to do so.  Are there any known uses
of /dev/shm which would break such as shared mmap PROT_EXEC
mappings?


Regards,
Roger

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