From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,af0c6ea85f3ed92d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.235.4 with SMTP id ui4mr1197399pbc.3.1331099030483; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:43:50 -0800 (PST) Path: h9ni48551pbe.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin3!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Arbitrary Sandbox Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:43:49 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <2aaee0a4-e820-4a75-bbaf-d9d09c366d2c@f5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <4da4bf75-e6c9-4c17-9072-ab6f533ed93f@vd8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> <203d63cf-42a9-49ef-82cd-943d77b5e438@c21g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <193cr8xol0ysi.14p4cp2yxnb0r$.dlg@40tude.net> <1jleu301thnd3$.s23priwn3ajb$.dlg@40tude.net> <18o3vqsl9uy2$.a3m68cg8ysro.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: Wf0JRqJBeN87FiFSIsFgPQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.61 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-03-07T06:43:49+01:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:06:06 +0100, Randy Brukardt = a =C3=A9crit: > As far as "software" and "paging" being able to do anything, this make= s = > no > sense at all. Pages on the x86 architecture don't (or at least didn't = = > until > fairly recently) have any memory permissions associated with them, so = it = > was > impossible to use that to prevent executing data. Moreover, Unix-deriv= ed > file formats had no practical way to tell the OS what was not executed= = > (and > the little information that exists was not used in any Unix or Windows= > system that I worked on prior to XPsp3). What changed with SP3? -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity