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setup modifying code?
- From: Linda W <cygwin at tlinx dot org>
- To: "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:57:29 -0800
- Subject: setup modifying code?
Dave Korn wrote:
Since it is a known fact that it _does_ legitimately contain
self-modifying code, the fact that your system doesn't warn must mean it is
not configured to warn about self-modifying code.
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This is probably a non-issue, but I don't know if it's been
tested. Does anyone know if setup's self-modifying code feature
could cause problems on XP-SP2 running on a processor that supports the
No-execute bit on data segments?
Linda
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