What does MAP_EXECUTABLE do?

From: Ray Lischner (lisch@tempest-sw.com)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 18:44:46 EST

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Running man mmap produces the enlightening text, "Linux also knows
about ... MAP_EXECUTABLE ..." but does nto tell me what MAP_EXECUTABLE
actually does, and how it differs from using PROT_EXEC. Reading the
source code has not helped me much.

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