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Brian Gerst wrote: > Jonathan M. McCune wrote: > >> Hello, >> > Why send the kernel back to the 2.0 days? There is no valid reason for > doing this with they way x86 segmentation works, which is why it was > done away with in 2.1. > But with segmentation you can set code to be read-only, disallow execution from stack, separate modules so that they will not affect kernel and more... The main problem with segmentation is that it is x86 specific... Best Regards, Alon Bar-Lev. - 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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