Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11

[Andi Kleen]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 13:33 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Your main objection is that *incorrect* programs that assume they can
> > > execute malloc() code without PROT_EXEC protection. For legacy binaries
> > > keeping this behavior makes sense, no objection from me.
> > > 
> > > For newly compiled programs this is just wrong and incorrect.
> > 
> > That's not true as the grub/mono/... experience shows. 
> 
> both those apps are buggy and incorrect though and should be fixed.

They worked fine forever - and suddenly you define them as buggy.
This might be, but it's still quite bad to change the definition
of what is buggy and what is not so suddenly in a "mostly stable"
release series. And who tells the users what is considered buggy
this week?

-Andi
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