Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86,2.6.7-rc2-bk2

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 20:28:14 EST


On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 18:12:53 -0700
Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:17:14PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:13:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Just out of interest - how many legacy apps are broken by this? I assume
> > > it's a non-zero number, but wouldn't mind to be happily surprised.
> >
> > based on execshield in FC1.. about zero.
>
> Doesn't Sun's JDK break here?

Nope, since it doesn't have the ELF header bit set that says it can support
that.

-Andi
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