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On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:48:57PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Quite frankly, nobody should ever depend on the kernel having zero holes. > We do our best, but if you want real security, you should have other > shields in place. exec-shield is one. So is using a compiler that puts That reminds me... What are the chances of exec-shield making it into mainline anytime in the near future? It's the *big* feature that has me preferring Red Hat/Fedora vendor kernels over mainline kernels, even on non-Red Hat/Fedora distributions. (I know that parts of exec-shield are already in mainline, but I'm wondering about the parts that haven't been merged yet.) -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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