> We had an issue like this last year, where someone tried to kill
> security exploits by putting a monkey wrench into the kernel
> (I'm refereing to the non-executable stack patches). That change
> didn't go in, and we're still alive today.
Actually a _lot_ of people run the non-excutable stack and related
patches. They don't break anything, they stop a lot of the "I read bugtraq
before my sysadmin" type cracks and the like
There _is_ a definite case for
CONFIG_SECURITY
CONFIG_SECURITY_NONEXECSTACK
CONFIG_SECURITY_TRUSTEDPATH
etc.. either in the main tree - or as now as a collection .
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