Re: Linux Buffer Overflow Security Exploits

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 19:30:15 +0100

> And how do you use more than 4 gigabytes of RAM on these boring Intel
> boxes _without_ segmentation? ;)
> [... and don't say "ram drives" - unless you have a new meaning for that ;)]

The answer is "You don't want to do this". Using >4G of RAM on a 32-bit
CPU is brain-damaged.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."


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