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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 08:43:04 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: <20240402084304.00001875@gmail.com> References: <uu54la$3su5b$6@dont-email.me> <87edbtz43p.fsf@tudado.org> <types-20240401151149@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <20240401111552.00006ddc@gmail.com> <20240401134457.000067f2@gmail.com> <stack-20240401220727@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <20240401143042.000056e0@gmail.com> <zJGON.210616$hN14.93559@fx17.iad> <uuh8a1$39ilt$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:43:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="744ddc53edd42a735bf7b4a3be5f2aaf"; logging-data="3432669"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/iwWL0ohyrztet0VYzbM09ZWVqxWiTQxM=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:chHUCBgDmEICehyq4xCIQeFl7O8= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.38; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Bytes: 1964 On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 15:30:09 -0000 (UTC) candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote: > It still protects writing to memory outside that buffer, right? > [snip] "Protecting memory" doesn't mean "no page fault," though, just that it won't scribble all over some other process's memory. But I am curious how universally various freenix distributions these days just let the application segfault vs. using that as a cue to allocate additional stack space; a quick test with WSL (Debian somethingorother) runs that test without complaint, but I don't have a genuine *nix box to hand to try it with.