Subject: Re: mmap(), security and /dev/zero
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/23/2004 21:34:52
In message <19449.1088050280@splode.eterna.com.au>matthew green writes

>to jonathan:  a x-bit-required-for-PROT_EXEC change needs a lot
>of 'settle time' in -current.  not for 2.0.

Understood. (I'm not a complete idiot). Sorry if that was unclear.

However, I still *do* want it, and I regret Thor's reports of a prior
decision not to do so, back when it'd be a reasonable proposition.