New submission from Nils Breunese <n...@breun.nl>: When I try to run iotop [0] on CentOS 5.6 on a kernel with grsecurity [1] then iotop won't start because grsecurity is blocking Python because of its use of the mprotect() system call.
Please see http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/ASL_FAQ#grsec:_denied_RWX_mprotect for more information. The authors of this hardened Linux kernel suggested to file a bug with Python because using mprotect() is apparently a very bad thing to do. [0] http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/ [1] http://grsecurity.net/ ---------- messages: 134314 nosy: breun priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Python shouldn't use the mprotect() system call type: security versions: 3rd party _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11912> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
