Documenting secure_getenv() in Linux man-pages

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Aug 14 07:10:00 GMT 2012


On 08/14/2012 08:22 AM, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Hi Florian, and others,
>
> I've written the following patch to the Linux man pages to document
> secure_getenv(). Could you take a moment to review it?

secure_getenv is missing from the synopsis. setjmp should be secure_getenv.

The "secure execution" requirement depends on the AT_SECURE flag 
supplied by the kernel and can be influenced by security modules (I 
believe).  So the list of conditions is likely not exhaustive.

-- 
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team



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