27 Nov
2017
27 Nov
'17
6:08 p.m.
SPICE2 does the same sort of thing (in semi-portable Fortran-IV)
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:11:41AM -0500, Noel Chiappa
wrote:
term,
From:
Doug McIlroy
But if that had been in D space, it couldn't
have been executed.
Along those lines, I was wondering about modern OS's, which I gather for
security reasons prevent execution of data, and prevent writing to code.
Programs which emit these little 'custom code fragments' (I prefer that since they aren't really
'self-modifying code' - which I define as 'a
program
which _changes_ _existing_ instructions) must
have some way of having a
chunk
of memory into which they can write, but which
can also be executed.
Isn't that how dtrace works?