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

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 10:04 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok so what to do for 2.6.11... the setarch workaround is there; that
> > works. My patch patches the worst issues and is quite minimal. What you
> > propose will be more invasive and more suitable for 2.6.11-bk1... 
> > I can do such a patch no problem (although the next two days I won't
> > have time).
> 
> Hmm.. I can take your initial patch now. Can somebody explain why this 
> hassn't come up before, though?

somehow things got "cleaned up" around 2.6.10-ish to change the
default... it's quite rare so few people noticed. It seems Andi got a
few reports in the last week or so and started investigating.




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