Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:48:32 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11 |
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On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 13:33 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Your main objection is that *incorrect* programs that assume they can > > > execute malloc() code without PROT_EXEC protection. For legacy binaries > > > keeping this behavior makes sense, no objection from me. > > > > > > For newly compiled programs this is just wrong and incorrect. > > > > That's not true as the grub/mono/... experience shows. > > both those apps are buggy and incorrect though and should be fixed.
They worked fine forever - and suddenly you define them as buggy. This might be, but it's still quite bad to change the definition of what is buggy and what is not so suddenly in a "mostly stable" release series. And who tells the users what is considered buggy this week?
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