On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 06:04:05PM -0500, John Prevost wrote:
> Pavel also mentioned that there's no way to prevent exec--I disagree
> (though I haven't looked at the list of capabilities in Linux or
> Posix, I'm afraid). Certainly, if you deny exec abilities you also
> want to deny, at least, the ability to mmap files as executable, and
> you also want to arrange that executable pages are never writable.
Doesn't make sense, most CPU's don't make a difference between read
and execute permissions for mappings or at least like the m68k don't
use their hardware capability to do so under Linux.
Ralf
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