Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Feb 06 2005 - 12:08:00 EST




On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> There are probably more.

So? Do you expect to never fix them, or what?

The fact is, a program that tries to execute without using PROT_EXEC is a
buggy program.

Are there buggy programs out there? Yes. We should fix them.

Linus
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