From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 1 17:21:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25951 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:21:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.15.68.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25922 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:20:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reilly@zeta.org.au) Received: from zeta.org.au (d22.syd2.zeta.org.au [203.26.11.22]) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA11046 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:19:45 +1000 Received: (qmail 1980 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Sep 1998 23:06:45 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Message-ID: <19980902090645.A1965@reilly.home> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:06:45 +1000 To: John Polstra Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF binaries size References: <199809011719.KAA13874@austin.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199809011719.KAA13874@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:19:18AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:19:18AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > Yes. That's because a.out rounds the text and data segments up to > page boundaries, but ELF does not. Does that mean that the last page in a text segment is treated differently (wrt vm paging) than the rest of the image, or is garbage loaded plast the end, along with the last page? Is this a security problem? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message