Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:54:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: jdp@polstra.com, bde@zeta.org.au, reilly@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF binaries size Message-ID: <199809022254.RAA06402@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199809020715.AAA22302@usr02.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:15:51 %2B0000 (GMT)) References: <199809020715.AAA22302@usr02.primenet.com>
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>> Also, how does it enhance security to prevent a program from reading >> its own text segment? If a program doesn't want to read its text >> segment then it should simply ... not read it. :-) > Good reason to not use an Intel processor... > Consider the case of a program of permission --x--x--x... > This "security through obscurity" is bogus, in any case. But then how do you use static strings? Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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