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Re: Exec Shield

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Dries Schellekens:
> 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).

no they did not -- go read it again.

cu

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