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SubjectRe: WINE + NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2
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> > We are using our own user space loader now, but a kernel space loader is 
> > neither portable or practical.
>
> Actually doesn't a kernel space loader let you discard text pages and
> fix them up again on demand as Windows does, rather than doing the
> relocations at load time and then having the pages considered dirty so
> they have to be swapped instead of just discarded?

Yes. I've written one which worked, but it hasn't been ported to the 2.6
kernel.

David
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