Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265426AbUFCBN0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:13:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265428AbUFCBN0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:13:26 -0400 Received: from agminet02.oracle.com ([141.146.126.229]:62437 "EHLO agminet02.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265426AbUFCBNY (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:13:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 18:12:53 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , "Siddha, Suresh B" , "Nakajima, Jun" Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 Message-ID: <20040603011253.GD5953@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , "Siddha, Suresh B" , "Nakajima, Jun" References: <20040602205025.GA21555@elte.hu> <20040602211714.GB29687@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040602211714.GB29687@devserv.devel.redhat.com> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 854 Lines: 27 On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:17:14PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:13:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Just out of interest - how many legacy apps are broken by this? I assume > > it's a non-zero number, but wouldn't mind to be happily surprised. > > based on execshield in FC1.. about zero. Doesn't Sun's JDK break here? Joel -- "Maybe the time has drawn the faces I recall. But things in this life change very slowly, If they ever change at all." Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/