Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:31:43 +0059 | From | Han Boetes <> | Subject | Re: propolice support for linux |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > you haven't commented on the "why is this useful for the kernel" > question I asked,
You didn't ask this question, and I did comment.
> can you point out a single kernel buffer overflow ??
Let's ask Edsger Dijkstra :-)
``Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! -- Edsger Dijkstra, [1972]''
I get your point though, but since it can't do any harm let us paranoid freaks have a proper patch at the least.
> (I know userspace has them; I'm asking you specifically about > kernel space since you provide a patch useful for kernel space > only)
Well I suggest it here as well: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=199891
But got zero replies. Could you be so kind to point out to these people it's a good idea?
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