DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2003-07
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Re: dynamic /bin /sbin
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:05:10PM +0100, Jan Grant wrote:
[...]
> There are billions* of reasons why having individual programs
> dynamically linking security plugins directly are a bad idea: by and
> large, they fall into two areas: resource management (every "ls"
> invocation opening a new SSL connection to an LDAP server? I don't think
> so) and proper protection of security domains (does your "ls" instance
> need read access to your host SSL client cert? Ick.)
FWIW, the dynamically-linked plugins to libc that currently exist will
each themselves sometimes spawn a daemon to maintain a persistent
connection. So what you end up having is a lot of code duplication
and a lot of plugins 'rolling their own' now that the authors realized
that the alternate approach (a-la lookupd) is actually cleaner.
> Basically, I think libc with fallback mechanism and a lookupd is the
> only really sane way to do this, certainly within a Unix paradigm. It
> has the advantage (if you so choose to call it) that it doesn't preclude
> a static /sbin.
That was my opinion as well.
> jan
>
> * well, many
>
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