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SubjectRe: thoughts on kernel security issues
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:53:51 +0100, Arjan van de Ven said:

> > Now look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/arjan/execshield/
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> > 4 separate hunks, the biggest is under 7K. Other chunks of similar size
> > for non-exec stack and NX support are already merged.
> >
> > And why were they merged? Because they showed up in 4-8K chunks.
> >
> note to readers: I'm still not happy about the split up and want to
> split this up even further in smaller pieces; the split up there is only
> a first order split.

Right - the point is that even an idiot like me can get my head wrapped around
that biggest 7K chunk and figure out what's going on. On the other hand, even
the Alan Cox gnome-cluster isn't able to digest a 280K patch...

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