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From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
To: eliz@gnu.org
Cc: pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	       jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [rfc v2, rfa-doc] Disable address space randomization with remote targets
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110071207.p97C7erS012080@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y5wzgtxz.fsf@gnu.org> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Oct 05, 2011 08:43:52 PM

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 20:32:56 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com (Jan Kratochvil),        patches@linaro.org
> > 
> > -The virtual address space randomization is implemented only on @sc{gnu}/Linux.
> > -It protects the programs against some kinds of security attacks.  In these
> > +On targets where it is available, virtual address space randomization
> > +protects the programs against some kinds of security attacks.  In these
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^
> "certain kinds"
> 
> > +Some target operating systems will randomize the inferior process'
> > +virtual address space as a security feature, but provide a feature
> 
> It is better to say "randomize the virtual address space of the
> inferior process", then you won't have the "issue" with "ss's".
> 
> > +to disable such randomization, e.g. to allow for a more deterministic
>                                   ^^^^
> "e.g.@:", to hint TeX not to typeset this as an end of a sentence.
> 
> The documentation part is okay with these changes.

I've made those changes, thanks!

Bye,
Ulrich

-- 
  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
  Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com


  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-07 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-21 16:56 [rfc, gdbserver] Disable address space randomization Ulrich Weigand
2011-09-29 18:12 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-09-30 15:08   ` Ulrich Weigand
2011-09-30 19:32     ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-05 18:33       ` [rfc v2, rfa-doc] Disable address space randomization with remote targets Ulrich Weigand
2011-10-05 18:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 12:08           ` Ulrich Weigand [this message]
2011-10-05 20:10         ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-06 13:25         ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-07 12:15           ` Ulrich Weigand

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