Executable memory: further programs that fail

Jef Spaleta jspaleta at princeton.edu
Mon Nov 24 13:18:00 UTC 2003


Chuck Wolber:
> Thank God that's not the case, otherwise the 2.6 kernel would never  
> come out... (referring to the fact that a few changes to 2.5/2.6 broke
> nearly *ALL* loadable modules at one time)

Comparing a kernel feature that doesn't work for nearly all modules
to a kernel feature that maybe affects 1% of binary applications( which
could be argued are doing technically 'illegal' tricks with regard to
the memory space ) .... is a bit of a stretch.  


-jef"if only i knew how to prevent shantytowns from appearing in
lincity"spaleta
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