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- From: dcm@codesmith.austin.ibm.com (Craig Miller)
- Newsgroups: bull.sys.aix,comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Changing name associated with a process
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.193931.14788@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 19:39:31 GMT
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- In article <kelvin.711888803@thed.uk22.bull.com> kelvin@thed.uk22.bull.com (Kelvin J. Hill) writes:
- >My comment re security violation was more to do with the ability to modify
- >address pointers which are presumably outside the users program. If we can
- >modify the argv[0] value on a machine wide basis, what else can we modify?
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- Are you sure argv[0] is outside the program's address space?
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- Craig
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