incorrect warning during check and upload

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Mon Apr 20 19:29:12 CEST 2015


Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes:

> Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
>> > This is how pkgchk knows which package provides /opt/csw/bin/isaexec.
>> >
>> > Some possibilities are:
>> >
>> > 1. Try to track down what postinstall does (but how?)
>> > 2. Modify CSWisaexec to provide a fake pkgmap entry (how?)
>> > 3. Distribute our own isaexec binary, compiled from external source (Illumos?)
>> > 4. Write our own isaexec
>>
>> the fourth possibility seems to me the most adequate; by the way, it's
>> not rocket science; however, having a look to SUN's c/o Illumos
>> implementation is worthy as much more cmplete (hah, Alan is here again
>> but not in the correct sense, consequently is just a bot) than what we
>> have today.
>
> It is not trivial if you like to create secure code that fits into a single 
> page.
>
> BTW: I created na isaexec implementation based on the Sun implementation.
> This was reworked not to depend on a libc function (as recent OpenSolaris 
> sources) and it still fits into a single page.

Wouldn't be nice that you include your implementation in our isaexec
package?
-- 
Peter


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