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Re: [PATCH 2/4] S390: Use own tbegin macro instead of __builtin_tbegin.


On 01/13/2017 04:32 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:

Anyway, I'm not sure whether this gives user code more means to exploit
or probe something, or not.  Maybe I was just too cautious here.

Well, on a certain level, it's no worse than fork. :)

I'm not too worried about it (even though fork is of course abused in this way, it used to be the main reason why Windows and Linux exploit development were so different).

Florian


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