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* pageexec@freemail.hu <pageexec@freemail.hu> wrote:

> > You generally seem to assume that security is an absolute goal 
> > with no costs attached.
> 
> quote me on that back please or admit you made this up. [...]

Just one quick example of your delusion:

   |
   | "a page fault is never a fast path"
   |

   (PageExec, Jun 6, 2011)

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/6/209

I think that sentence will become a classic quote to chuckle about.

Thanks,

	Ingo