[#4076] Ruby/DL — Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>

I recently used Ruby/DL to create bindings to the SQLite3 embedded

40 messages 2005/01/03
[#4096] Re: Ruby/DL — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2005/01/04

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:53:49AM +0900, Jamis Buck wrote:

[#4099] Re: Ruby/DL — ts <decoux@...> 2005/01/04

>>>>> "P" == Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

[#4119] Re: Ruby/DL — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2005/01/05

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:05:48AM +0900, ts wrote:

[#4120] Re: Ruby/DL — ts <decoux@...> 2005/01/05

>>>>> "P" == Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

[#4125] Re: Ruby/DL — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2005/01/05

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:10:34AM +0900, ts wrote:

[#4116] Test::Unit::Collector::Dir won't work with code that modifies $LOAD_PATH — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>

Any test code that depends upon modifications of $: fails when used

10 messages 2005/01/05

[#4146] The face of Unicode support in the future — Charles O Nutter <headius@...>

Hello Rubyists!

47 messages 2005/01/06
[#4152] Re: The face of Unicode support in the future — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/01/07

Hi,

[#4167] Re: The face of Unicode support in the future — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...> 2005/01/09

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

[#4175] Re: The face of Unicode support in the future — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/01/10

Hi,

[#4186] Re: The face of Unicode support in the future — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2005/01/11

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:53:48PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#4192] Re: The face of Unicode support in the future — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/01/12

Hi,

[#4269] Re: The face of Unicode support in the future — Wes Nakamura <wknaka@...>

19 messages 2005/01/18
[#4270] Re: The face of Unicode support in the future — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/01/18

Hi,

[#4275] Re: The face of Unicode support in the future — Wes Nakamura <wknaka@...> 2005/01/19

[#4323] test/unit doesn't rescue a Exception — Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>

test/unit doesn't rescue a Exception in a test method, as follows.

14 messages 2005/01/27
[#8773] Re: test/unit doesn't rescue a Exception — Tanaka Akira <akr@...> 2006/09/02

In article <87is5jb46q.fsf@serein.a02.aist.go.jp>,

[#8776] Re: test/unit doesn't rescue a Exception — "Nathaniel Talbott" <ntalbott@...> 2006/09/03

On 9/1/06, Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> wrote:

[#8777] Re: test/unit doesn't rescue a Exception — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2006/09/03

On Sep 2, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:

Re: Ruby/DL

From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2005-01-06 15:07:28 UTC
List: ruby-core #4142
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Florian Growrote:
> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > 2. Are there any OS'es that block execution of data-segments? IIRC, the
> > i386-family supports such permission flags, but I don't know which OS'es
> > use it for real. (Linux doesn't...)
> 
> Isn't N^X all about that?

What's this N^X thing? is that the hot new way to say UNIX? Or is it the
way to say *NIX as an obscure echo to AT&T/Lucent litigations, all the
while trying not to sound like an old fart? Anyway "N^X" to me looks like
nothing at all, and I'd label it plain skriptkiddie-talk if it weren't
generally an insult. I don't even want to know where the "^" comes from.

Anyway, what do you mean by "all about"... UNIX brought a whole slew of
things over 35 years... it's not like any feature of UNIX really defines
UNIX; and not even many features are typical of UNIX, especially as most
other OS'es have implemented them since.

Besides, permission bits on segments aren't a defining feature of any OS,
it's just a feature of some CPU's, that the OS may give an interface to or
not.

What I meant by "Linux doesn't" is that data segments are executable by
default. I wanted to know which OS'es default to non-executable, and which
of those OS'es don't allow executable segments at all.

> It seems to be quite a hot thing for protecting against stack
> overflows right now.

hmmm?... i guess you mean protecting about unchecked overflow of buffers
that are stack-allocated ?... sounds like a useful trick, though I'm not
well-versed enough in security to know whether that's practically useful,
or just another paranoid compulsion.

Else, if i read you literally, then no, it doesn't do anything about
stack-overflows, nor does it help.

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