Wow. This is big. Windows XP SP 2 will have a non-executable stack. This, in addition to a number of other quite significant changes, will require that developers look very carefully at their code. Heavy-duty DCOM applications, in particular.
A non-executable stack is a smart, and dare I say, bold move for our friends in Redmond. But I thought pentium-class processors didn't support no-execute stacks? I remember some Linux issue with this. I could be way off here.
Even so, you know this is going to break things like PERL, Python, and Java on Win XP for a while.
A non-executable stack is a smart, and dare I say, bold move for our friends in Redmond. But I thought pentium-class processors didn't support no-execute stacks? I remember some Linux issue with this. I could be way off here.
Even so, you know this is going to break things like PERL, Python, and Java on Win XP for a while.
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