full-disclosure - Re: XP SP2 is out: 279MB

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Message-ID: <200403221431.i2MEVnP24036@netsys.com>
From: larry at larryseltzer.com (Larry Seltzer)
Subject: Re: XP SP2 is out: 279MB

>>Have you seen the size of it? 279 MB!

It's not surprising that it's large. Large parts of the core of Windows are recompiled
in this SP to add stack-checking and things like that.