Re: WINE + NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Jun 06 2004 - 02:35:24 EST


On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:09:32PM +0900, Mike McCormack wrote:
> Fedore Code 1's exec-shield patch broke Wine badly, as there was no way
> for an application to turn it off from user space, and Wine depended
> upon certain areas of virtual memory being free.

if you have a need for a special virtual memory layout please use your
own binary loader as I already suggested earlier in the thread, i.e.
binfmt_pecoff.

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