Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag

2008-03-06 Thread Artur Skawina
Jack Lloyd wrote: > But still: so the threat here is of a malicious process with the > ability to send arbitrary signals to any process using CAP_KILL (since > in any other case when a process can send a signal, it can do much > more damage in other ways), which could leverage that into > (potentia

Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag

2008-03-06 Thread Artur Skawina
gain is more like 90% on a P4 [1]. So the impact on small structure memcpy/memset etc is significant, hence fixing the kernel looks like a better long term plan. artur [1] P4 # ./bcsp m IACCK 0.9.29 Artur Skawina <...> [ exec time; lower is better ] [speed ] [ time ] [ok?] TIME-N+S TIME32 TIM