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

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:40:32 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

  Christoph> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:37:54PM +0200, Arjan van de
  Christoph> Ven wrote:
  >> Fedora makes the heap non executable too; it only broke X which
  >> has it's own shared library loader (which btw had all the right
  >> mprotects in place, just ifdef'd for freebsd, ia64 and a few
  >> other architectures that default to non-executable heap, so we
  >> just added x86(-64) to that)

  Christoph> Maybe you should just call mprotect always to be safe? :)
  Christoph> OTOH I guess the world would end if a X release had less
  Christoph> ifdefs than the previous one..

No kidding!

	--david
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