RE: false asumption or security flaw? (fwd)

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@gnu.org>]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Strohm Thomas (FV/SLD) * wrote:

> > the reson why the program will not dump is becuase it is done by a 4k
> > page system and the page has not been freed by the proggram because it
> > probably has something else in it and then the same page will not be
> > alloced to another process
> > 
> > somebody please correct me if i am wrong :)
> 
> That's right. Memory protection is always page-grained (4kB).

To be really nit-picking: not every architecture has 4kb-sized pages :-)


greetings,
Lennert


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