28 Nov
2017
28 Nov
'17
12:21 a.m.
On 2017, Nov 27, at 12:08 PM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
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
<mailto:lm@mcvoy.com>> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:11:41AM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Isn't that how dtrace works?
In POSIX systems, the mprotect(2) syscall can set execute permissions.
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 term,
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.