Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:06:45 +1000 From: "Andrew Reilly" <reilly@zeta.org.au> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF binaries size Message-ID: <19980902090645.A1965@reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <199809011719.KAA13874@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:19:18AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809011239210.648-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> <199809011719.KAA13874@austin.polstra.com>
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On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:19:18AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > Yes. That's because a.out rounds the text and data segments up to > page boundaries, but ELF does not. Does that mean that the last page in a text segment is treated differently (wrt vm paging) than the rest of the image, or is garbage loaded plast the end, along with the last page? Is this a security problem? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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