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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 buffer overflow exploit explained in Phrack Volume 0x0b, Issue 0x3e, Phile #0x09 of 0x0f
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:01:46 -0400
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> Funny you should mention that...  it's exactly what I was thinking of
> in terms of NOT eliminating compatibility.  I suppose the obvious answer
> would be to just recompile it with g++ or otherwise release it (mpm).

it's not just mpm.  i can run almost every binary that has
ever been compiled on plan 9 (for my current architecture).
that's useful occasionally, and it's 100 lines of code to implement.
if you don't want to carry it around, you could chop it out
of your copy, but there are much bigger things you could drop
instead.