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RE: setup modifying code?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:30:19 -0000
- Subject: RE: setup modifying code?
----Original Message----
>From: Linda W
>Sent: 08 March 2005 04:57
> 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.
>>
>>
> ----
> 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
Shouldn't do. It only modifies the code segment AFAIUI.
cheers,
DaveK
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