Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Feb 06 2005 - 12:16:13 EST




On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Force READ_IMPLIES_EXEC for all 32bit processes to fix
> the 32bit source compatibility.

Andi, stop this. We're _not_ going to say "32-bit executables don't need
PROT_EXEC. The executables would need to be marked broken per-executable,
not some kind of "we don't do this globally" setting.

Linus
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