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> It *IS* an option. You need to apply an patch to enable that option. Since
> you are skilled sysadmin, you know how to do that. Most newbie-users for
> which this would cause an problem don't know how to download and apply that
> patch, so no problem for them.
I see the big benifit from putting it in the Linus Linux kernel is that
the zillion *users* out there will get protection from buffer overflows in
gigantic userspace apps like Netscape.
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