Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264211AbUFCB1K (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:27:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264238AbUFCB1K (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:27:10 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:31406 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264211AbUFCB1I (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:27:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 03:27:04 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Joel Becker Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, jun.nakajima@intel.com Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 Message-Id: <20040603032704.166b2197.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20040603011253.GD5953@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <20040602205025.GA21555@elte.hu> <20040602211714.GB29687@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20040603011253.GD5953@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 788 Lines: 21 On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 18:12:53 -0700 Joel Becker wrote: > 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? Nope, since it doesn't have the ELF header bit set that says it can support that. -Andi - 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/