Subject: Re: WINE + NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2
From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 10:43, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> And btw, if you'd have read the whole thread you'd have seen that I argued
> against mergign the randomization and address space layout changes into
> 2.6, and such changes during stable series are bad.  But your still much
> better of getting your code fixed properly, and thus pretty much means
> havign your own binary format handler in the kernel that sets up the address
> space in a windows compatible way.

I find randomization interesting and worthy... I would like to see it
integrated into 2.6 although adding a toggle to controli it use could be
desirable.

Another thing I miss is Process ID randomization ala OpenBSD.


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