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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:13:42 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: SSE related security hole
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Hi!

> >	  Basically they should only deal with the
> > other operative systems now.
> 
> Yeah. And since the security hole is fairly small and insignificant in
> comparison to some others, I suspect that the main "other operating
> system" just won't care one way or the other.

*If* the other system uses fpu unit for memcpy, well, it may get
pretty big and significant.
									Pavel
-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa
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