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.
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
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