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The ExecShield patches

The ExecShield patches

Posted Jul 21, 2005 10:13 UTC (Thu) by mingo (subscriber, #31122)
In reply to: The ExecShield patches by jreiser
Parent article: Kernel Summit 2005: The ExecShield patches

What do you mean by "fewer large arrays are possible"? Randomization of shared libraries in FC4 happens in the first ~128MB of virtual memory. You should have no expectation of continuity in that area, and it's not a problem. The other 2.9 GB of virtual memory is not affected by this, there you can have as large arrays as you wish to.


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