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Re: [PATCH 0/6] Protect fork() against dll- and exe-updates.

From: Daniel Colascione <dancol at dancol dot org>
To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:55:26 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Protect fork() against dll- and exe-updates.
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On 03/30/2016 11:53 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is the updated and split series of patches to use hardlinks
> for creating the child process by fork(), in reply to
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2016-01/msg00002.html
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2016-03/msg00005.html
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.devel/1378
> 
> Thanks for review!
> /haubi/
> 
> 

Creating a new process now requires a write operation on the filesystem
hosting the binary? Seriously? I don't think that's worth it no matter
the other benefits.

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