"A month of sundays ago Alan Cox wrote:"
>
> 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
As I remember, they broke gdb.
I saw some other funny effects later and backed them out.
They also break the trampolines emmited naturally by gcc.
Alan, this and for other reasons are why I think they should be
seperate patch sets, never in the mainline.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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