On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > P.S. I must admit I've never really understood how Data Execution > Prevention is ever going to work in a world with interpreted languages > and just in time compilers... the line between data and code is fuzzier > than one might think for a lot of programs...
The OS has to provide a mechanism to enable execution for a particular region of memory. Under Windows, this is done by the VirtualProtect function. -- Curt Hagenlocher c...@hagenlocher.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
