Harvard vs. vonNeuman

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_floodgap.com>
Date: Wed Sep 29 00:49:07 2004

> > > Okay, figured out why my code didn't work, and it's not due to writing to
> > > the wrong location (although I suspect that still is a problem) but that
> > > under Unix the code pages are marked read-only so of course it coredumped.

> > I wonder if this is true in Winders. Seriously -- is it?

> It may be (a function of the Intel processor), but you can get around this
> my mapping those pages elsewhere with read/write access (well, in ring 0).
> -spc (But I'm not terribly interested in the answer for Windows ... )

The only reason why I asked was it might be another exploit method.

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