Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:19:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jdp@polstra.com, bde@zeta.org.au, reilly@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF binaries size Message-ID: <199809030019.RAA29265@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809022254.RAA06402@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Sep 2, 98 05:54:06 pm
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> >> Also, how does it enhance security to prevent a program from reading > >> its own text segment? If a program doesn't want to read its text > >> segment then it should simply ... not read it. :-) > > Good reason to not use an Intel processor... > > Consider the case of a program of permission --x--x--x... > > This "security through obscurity" is bogus, in any case. > > But then how do you use static strings? You put them in a read-only ELF *DATA* section, where they belong, instead of where GCC puts them, of course. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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