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Mon Jul 13 23:50:48 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-July/090622.html

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at 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.

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Curt Hagenlocher
curt at hagenlocher.org

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