Re: non exec stack & devfs threads!
Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:53:40 +0300
DB> First of all, I agree whole heartedly with Mr Torvalds that the anti stack
DB> execution patch is just a patch to the symptoms and not the underlying
DB> problem itself. Somebody here, I forget who, mentioned that GCC has an
DB> option to compile programs with array bounds checking. THIS IS EXACTLY
DB> THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM!!! If all setuid root programs were compiled
DB> with this option, this would be a non issue! Please feel free to shoot my
DB> reasoning if it is false.
There was a discussion on bugtraq obout bounds checking. That made programs
_very_ slow (AFAIR about 20 times slower sometimes).
C is not designed to be bounds checking - that's why it's so hard.
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Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
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