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Date:      Sun, 28 Jun 1998 00:48:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Patrick McAndrew  <pfm@slack.net>
To:        jtb <jtb@pubnix.org>
Cc:        Wojciech Sobczuk <sopel@hood.1lo.lublin.pl>, fpscha@schapachnik.com.ar, Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk>, ncb05@uow.edu.au, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: non-executable stack?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.980628004722.10369A-100000@brooklyn.slack.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980627182039.9643A-100000@pubnix.org>

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On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, jtb wrote:

> What do you mean, checking for this is very easy, just before something
> gets executed, you take argv and envp and loop through them looking for
> those certain ascii characters, it's like 10-15 lines of code, if that.  I
> don't see why you'd think that would be cumbersome to the kernel. 

I thought you  were talking about userland programs. However, this could
make it hardware dependant (as control codes can change between archs),
and if this routine is called several hundred times a second (ona  busy
system), it could slow things down a bit.



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