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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:22:58 -0500
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY
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To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>,
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Subject: Re: noexec=on doesn't work
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John Richard Moser wrote:
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> I'm running on an Athlon 64 in 32-bit mode, running 32-bit Ubuntu with
> kernel 2.6.19 (Ubuntu version 2.6.19-7-generic for the curious;
> compiled for 586).  Apparently, 'noexec=on' on the kernel command line
> does nothing; the NX bit seems to not work.

Straining my memories of i586, I don't think that it even COULD do 
noexec... I don't have any here to try at the moment. In any case an 
option which isn't known or isn't implemented should generate a warning.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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