Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2

From: Suresh Siddha
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 18:00:48 EST


On Thursday 03 June 2004 13:37, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > What do you mean by "in the future"? on x86, with the current no execute
> > patch, malloc() will be non-exec
>
> On x86-64 the heap is executable right now at least.
>

oh! I see. Looks like only Ingo's exec-shield patch is doing that.

thanks,
suresh
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