Re: Stack Smashing and no-exec

Pete Harlan (harlan@pointofchoice.com)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 16:52:10 -0500 (CDT)

Trever writes:
> keep the system safe. Root is supreme, root is the OS in many ways. If
> root takes the system down, heck, that is roots fault. So the mentality
> that the OS should protect root from himself (note generic him, none of

So we shouldn't segfault root-owned processes that write outside their
memory either. That should cut down on sig11's when compiling the
kernel now that you mention it.

--
Pete Harlan
harlan@pointofchoice.com


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