Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Feb 2005 10:04:04 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11 |
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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?
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