From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 20 16:29:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14828 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:29:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@[206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14814 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:29:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26896; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:28:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199807202328.RAA26896@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:15:21 -0600 To: Garrett Wollman From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The 99,999-bug question: Why can you execute from the stack? Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807201911.PAA01354@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199807201732.LAA20377@lariat.lariat.org> <199807200140.TAA06705@lariat.lariat.org> <199807201732.LAA20377@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Might not be a bad option, but to be honest I'd have a lot to learn before being sure I could make that kind of decision.(I'm assuming you're talking about Symbolics, the old LISP machine company; last time I checked, they'd gone belly up.) I'd need to see whether the language and OS I could get today were fully type-safe and reasonably secure. --Brett At 03:11 PM 7/20/98 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: >So go get an Alpha and run Symbolics Genera on it. > >-GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message