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My guess is 80% of you will get about 20% of what this email is saying, but you'll post on here like you know it all.Search your feelings, you know it to be true. /reflections of myself about 15 years ago. //Modulo mistakes... cute
Once you grok that W^X means Write XOR Execute (which you can gather from the rest of the summary), it gets easier.
But, really, it should be: !w || !x so that read-only, no-execute access is also valid.
Truth Table for this expression:
X | F | T_W__|___|____F__|_T_|_T__T__|_T_|_F_
Hmm, haven't kept up on Linux, but on most embedded systems I've worked with the read-only data is lumped together in the text (executable) section.
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most of you will pretend you understand (Score:1)
My guess is 80% of you will get about 20% of what this email is saying, but you'll post on here like you know it all. /reflections of myself about 15 years ago. //Modulo mistakes... cute
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
Once you grok that W^X means Write XOR Execute (which you can gather from the rest of the summary), it gets easier.
Re: (Score:2)
But, really, it should be: !w || !x so that read-only, no-execute access is also valid.
Truth Table for this expression:
X | F | T
_W__|___|___
_F__|_T_|_T_
_T__|_T_|_F_
Re:most of you will pretend you understand (Score:2)
Hmm, haven't kept up on Linux, but on most embedded systems I've worked with the read-only data is lumped together in the text (executable) section.