From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB2 Build on Mac OS X
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:23:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512100123.57552.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vexxonh6.fsf@xs4all.nl>
On Saturday 10 December 2005 12:32 am, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Wouldn't it be possible to use some other memory than the stack to
> implement trampolines? It's documented quite well:
By modifying GCC and a dynamic linker, it is possible.
> Anyways, my primary concerns are making things work and moving
> forwards to something that is releasable. Making GRUB work in a way
> so it works like everyone wants is secondary and not possible in
> practice. Paranoid security is secondary to me, but if we can get it
> for free without making a mess of the code, that would be great.
Paranoid is called paranoid, because it is a disease. Many people tend to
forget that things are always based on a tradeoff. If such an attempt as
prohibiting all executable stacks is merely paranoid, we should not care
about it.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-10 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-08 6:10 GRUB2 Build on Mac OS X Andre Smith
2005-12-08 12:26 ` Marco Gerards
2005-12-08 16:27 ` Peter Jones
2005-12-08 18:25 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-12-08 23:40 ` Peter Jones
2005-12-10 0:18 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-12-10 14:32 ` Marco Gerards
2005-12-08 18:45 ` Marco Gerards
2005-12-08 19:10 ` Andrei Warkentin
2005-12-08 20:00 ` Marco Gerards
2005-12-08 20:10 ` Andrei Warkentin
2005-12-08 20:14 ` Marco Gerards
2005-12-08 20:51 ` Andrei Warkentin
2005-12-09 22:49 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-12-09 23:07 ` Peter Jones
2005-12-09 23:32 ` Marco Gerards
2005-12-10 0:23 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2005-12-10 18:52 ` Peter Jones
2005-12-09 23:26 ` Marco Gerards
2005-12-08 15:09 ` Andrei Warkentin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-08 22:01 andre-smith
2005-12-08 23:06 ` Andrei Warkentin
2005-12-09 21:34 ` Marco Gerards
2005-12-08 23:18 ` Andrei Warkentin
2005-12-09 21:40 ` Marco Gerards
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