Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264108AbUFCUhj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:37:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264275AbUFCUhj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:37:39 -0400 Received: from uni03du.unity.ncsu.edu ([152.1.13.103]:63116 "EHLO uni03du.unity.ncsu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264108AbUFCUhg (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:37:36 -0400 From: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:37:28 -0400 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: <20040603203728.GA17239@ncsu.edu> 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> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 782 Lines: 20 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. FWIW, applix runs fine on FC1 (well, after you install the necessary libraries.) This is probably about the oldest binary-only legacy app for linux. The date on the executable is Jun 1996. Thanks, Jim - 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/