Zoltan Menyhart <> wrote on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:58 AM:
> The text segment can be huge. There is no reason to flush all the text
> segment every time when ld-linux-ia64.so.* patches an instruction and
> changes the protection.
>
You flush only the pages that got written and thus marked fo
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:58:04 +0100, Zoltan Menyhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
Zoltan> An application should not change the protection of its _own_
Zoltan> text region without knowing well the requirements of the
Zoltan> given architecture.
And the rationale being?
Zoltan> I
An application should not change the protection of its _own_ text region
without knowing well the requirements of the given architecture.
I do not think we should add anything into the kernel for this case.
I did see /lib/ld-linux-ia64.so.* changing the protection of the text
segment of the _victim
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