Re: Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Wed Feb 28 2007 - 18:38:56 EST



On Feb 28 2007 15:20, Bill Irwin wrote:
>
>I don't know about the rest of the world, but halting the system in the
>case of memory corruption sounds like an extremely good idea to me.

Just because a rather "unimportant" driver (e.g. parport) might oops
thanks to a now-invalid address after memory corruption, I'd still like
to shutdown the system normally - which should be possible when not
using parport after said corruption.


Jan
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