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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:49:56 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: can we make anonymous memory non-EXECUTABLE?
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On 8 Jan 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> One way to do this would be to create a newbrk() syscall which takes a
> permission argument (for new pages.)

ITYM mmap(2)

Rik
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