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

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:39:58AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> I think Wine could get around this by creating a dummy ELF section in
>> the Wine binary that covers the first 1GB or so. Wine could still use
>> ordinary dynamic libraries - those would go above that 1GB. Then once
>> Wine has loaded up it can munmap() that first 1GB.
>> (this would not work if Wine has to dlopen() new libraries after this
>> phase - does that happen?)

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:41:08AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Why can't wine just implement it's own binfmt_pecoff?  Sounds like the
> much simpler solutuion.

I'd be in favor of this also. An executable format with wide enough
usage is worth adding kernel support for loading it.


-- wli
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