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Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 14:39:44 -0700
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To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
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Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:34:00PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>Doesn't help.  exec() should fail.
> 
> 
> Only if you're out of memory (any sane app nowadays does not allocate 
> memory from data/bss).
> 

.data/.bss is writable, and will need to be allocated to avoid 
overcommitment, so the exec() will fail.

	-hpa