AIX and Privsep.

[Darren Tucker]

Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> Outside the patch I just sent.  *IS* there any other open bugs, issues
> or problems with AIX and Privsep.

Not that I'm aware of.

> Or with AIX in general?

All of the issues I'm aware of are in Bugzilla.

The most important is not incrementing the failed login count, which
allows password-guessing attacks:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145

A macro name collision that prevents compiling with the native compiler:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265

There's a few others where the resolution isn't clear.

> I want to close out that platform and move to a new platform to work on.

Thanks for your work so far!

> Does all AIX versions have a tolerable mmap()?

Depending on what you mean, I think so. 4.[23].x have MAP_ANONYMOUS and
MAP_SHARED and seem to work.
I don't have access to 5.1 but I suspect the same applies.

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