Re: Providing access to the ELF Auxillary Vector for all binaries

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:12:20PM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> > 
> > Further changes could include a careful check of initial system calls
> > of typical process traces. One change to adopt from FreeBSD (IIRC) is to
> > include the initial seed for arc4random to save that system call etc.
> 
> Could you explain these points more carefully?  What is the purpose of these
> checks and traces?  Will they show up in .core files?

Process trace as in the output of ktrace/ktruss/..., e.g. identify
things most programs do very early during startup and whether it should
be just passed in as hint by the kernel.

Joerg