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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




  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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