On Jun 13, 10:07am, thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: using an elf note for paxctl instead of os bits...

| > Hi,
| >
| > I've been asked by core to provide a diff to use an elf note instead  
| > of
| > the os bits in the elf flags, so that we don't waste the bits.  
| > Ultimately
| > this could use fileassoc, but it is a lot more work. Here's the diff I
| > am planning to apply. Comments?
| 
| Good.  Wasting OS bits is bad.
| 
| Is this going to get into netbsd-4?  If we're going to make this (ABI)  
| change, we need to push it back to the first pax-aware release branch.

Yes, this is going to go to netbsd-4 for that exact reason as mentioned
in the core minutes.

christos