Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jun 04 2004 - 05:43:28 EST


On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:39:58AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I think Wine could get around this by creating a dummy ELF section in
> the Wine binary that covers the first 1GB or so. Wine could still use
> ordinary dynamic libraries - those would go above that 1GB. Then once
> Wine has loaded up it can munmap() that first 1GB.
>
> (this would not work if Wine has to dlopen() new libraries after this
> phase - does that happen?)

Why can't wine just implement it's own binfmt_pecoff? Sounds like the
much simpler solutuion.

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