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Re: fexecve



>> (I'd actually _like_ to see something capabilityish, in which case
>> "can use fexecve" would be a capability that could be removed, from
>> init if need be, on systems that care about this sort of thing.)
> Couldn't we have an enable/disable sysctl variable for this?

Certainly.  I would count that as "something capabilityish" - after
all, assuming it's per-process, in what ways, aside from the APIs used
to control it, does that differ from a capability?

Or, to return for a moment to my roots,

$ SET PROC/PRIV=FEXECVE

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