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Re: setjmp test case


On 03/11/2011 02:32 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
I still find it slightly suspect that all this certificate
nonsense happens when I'm never even going to consider using the server.

The rationale is that someone may give an unprivileged user a pre-built module which requires the already-built uprobes.ko. The unprivileged user cannot load uprobes.ko unless it is signed.

Dave


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