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SubjectRe: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11


On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > And if you want to split things up, there's at least three flags there:
> > "stack" vs "file mapping" vs "anonymous mapping". For example, it might
>
> lets add "brk" as 4th I guess.

I thought about that, but no normal user program uses brk() natively. They
all just use "malloc()" and friends, and pretty much every implementation
of those in turn just mixes brk/anon-mmap freely.

> Ok so what to do for 2.6.11... the setarch workaround is there; that
> works. My patch patches the worst issues and is quite minimal. What you
> propose will be more invasive and more suitable for 2.6.11-bk1...
> I can do such a patch no problem (although the next two days I won't
> have time).

Hmm.. I can take your initial patch now. Can somebody explain why this
hassn't come up before, though?

Linus
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