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Re: CIAC Advisory F-11 Report: Unix NCSA httpd Vulnerability
>And what do you suggest for a real OS? A real language? And how does a process
>efficiently pass variables to functions if it can't write to it's stack.
Right, but can the machine/OS be made to execute _code_ written into the
stack????
>A special dedicated stack - I don't see where this is a UNIX screw up.
No, separate instruction and data space (I&D space). It's been around
for many years. Later PDP-11 models had it, e.g.
-- Bob
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