[CRIU] [PATCH 1/3] prctl: reduce permissions to change boundaries of data, brk and stack

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:34:12PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
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> Maybe we can make prlctl() do lite-execve()? It will open the executable, read the
> required amount of headers and just put data red from there onto mm-struct? This 
> should be MUCH better, that full execve() with loading all binary data plus strace
> and flushing old mm-s.

Well, this would be good, except I don't know how would we deal with executables
which are running but deleted, where would we fetch these headers from? (Note the
program can map new executable region, jump there and unmap own text section).