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From: Dries Schellekens <gwyllion(at)ace.ulyssis.org>
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 11:46:33 EDT


Hey,

Linux seems to have copied OpenBSD's W^X on x86 http://redhat.com/~mingo/exec-shield/

Apparently they succeeded in making it a kernel only patch (the scheduler changes the code segment limit upon every context switch).

Cheers,

Dries

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Dries Schellekens
email: gwyllion@ulyssis.org
Received on Mon May 5 11:50:32 2003

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