Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf.c allow .bss with no access (p---)

[John Reiser]

> > This ALPHA quality patch against 2.6.3 adds another argument to do_brk()
> > which enables having a user ELF .bss with no-access (or read-only).

> Does this fix the Wine case where we have a new RO section that isn't the
> BSS?

Yes, because the patch considers each PT_LOAD with p_filesz < p_memsz
to have a "local" .bss.  This is more general than plain 2.6.3 which
creates only one "global" BSS after accumulating information from all
of the PT_LOAD.

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