Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:36:47 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection |
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On Feb 28 2007 15:20, Bill Irwin wrote: > >I don't know about the rest of the world, but halting the system in the >case of memory corruption sounds like an extremely good idea to me.
Just because a rather "unimportant" driver (e.g. parport) might oops thanks to a now-invalid address after memory corruption, I'd still like to shutdown the system normally - which should be possible when not using parport after said corruption.
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