Messages in this thread | | | From | Pete Harlan <> | Subject | Re: Stack Smashing and no-exec | Date | Fri, 7 Aug 1998 16:52:10 -0500 (CDT) |
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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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