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Mrs Quis Will Think of a Better Title
Personal blog · magisterquis.github.iosecuritysystems
Mrs Quis Will Think of a Better Title is a personal blog at magisterquis.github.io about security and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “In-Memory-Only ELF Execution Without Tmpfs”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on running programs without touching disk, such as the 2018 post on in-memory-only ELF execution with memfd. One commenter cites it for packaging Python scripts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
In which I describe neat things and pontificate about unix security.
Most-linked posts?
- In-Memory-Only ELF Execution Without Tmpfs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-01
What Hacker News says?
This is exactly how I package my python scripts. The answer to your question: Memfd https://magisterquis.github.io/2018/03/31/in-memory-only-elf... And zipimport pip package
Comment linking /2018/03/31/in-memory-only-elf-execution.html
on “Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard”Submitted In-Memory-Only ELF Execution Without Tmpfs as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted In-Memory-Only ELF Execution (Without Tmpfs) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion