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From: Tim Baur <tbaur@panaso.com>
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Subject: Re: Non-Executable Stack Patch
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, jeremie le-hen wrote:

> I also had a quick look to the patch, and it's clearly GCC which is
> mainly modified. A very few kernel source files are changed, in order to
> make a panic when a stack overflow occurs within it.

I think you may be missing the point, but nonetheless.

-tbaur