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Re:GCC eBPF for Linux port has landed by saagarjha on Monday September 09, 2019 @01:39PM (#20920376)
Apart from the fact that it can potentially run forever, which can be unacceptable in certain contexts.
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Re:GCC eBPF for Linux port has landed by AgentME on Monday September 09, 2019 @01:42PM (#20920416)
That can be addressed by pre-processing WASM like in https://github.com/ewasm/wasm-metering so it aborts if it runs for too many steps.
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Re:GCC eBPF for Linux port has landed by devwastaken on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:12PM (#20920721)
Instruction modification is a hack. The proper way is to control as a VM.
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