On Friday 29 September 2006 19:46, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:51:43PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:14:32PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > > To make some writable tmpfs available to those in need of such > > > > system, and to avoid using /dev/shm/ which is reserved for the > > > > shm-functions, I just uploaded sysvinit version 2.86.ds1-26. It will > > > > mount a tmpfs on /lib/init/rw/ that can be used instead. If > > > > /lib/init/rw/.ramfs exist, that mount point is a tmpfs. I'm not sure > > > > if this last change will make it into Etch or not, but I hope so, to > > > > solve any problems with packages previously using /dev/shm/ as a > > > > generic tmpfs file system. > > > > > > Well, I'd actually prefer if you could remove the noexec flag from > > > /dev/shm. I understand the security reasons given in the bugreport but > > > I'd prefer avoid having to deal with one more Debian-only (is it?) > > > thing given the soon to come general freeze. > > > > UML needs a non-noexec place to keep a file that will be used as its > > physical memory. A tmpfs mount is greatly preferred for performance > > reasons as well as tmpfs being the only filesystem supporting > > MADV_REMOVE, which is used for memory hotplug. > > Thinking of a Debian only fix for the above, does simply playing with > default_tmpdir in arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c (probably in which_tmpdir()) > suffice to use /lib/init/rw/.ramfs as default? Is it world-writable with the sticky bit set as /tmp and /dev/shm? I do not know
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