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Subject: Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?
To: jeremy.jackson@sympatico.ca (Jeremy Jackson)
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> which are marked
> supervisor-only (is this right?), and definitely don't contain user
> code.

x86 its a fair description. However someone has taken the same theory, 
including handling the exceptions and the x86 segment tricks needed to make
it kind of fly. Its not a perfect cure but it works. Search for Solar Designer
and non executable stack.




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