[PATCH v2] Allow exec on 32-bit from readable, non-exec pages, with a warning.

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 11, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Scott Wood wrote:

> Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>>> Actually I see no good reason to enforce no-exec at all if we  
>>> can't do
>>> it consistently.  And if we're not going to enforce it then there is
>>> no point whinging about it.
>>
>>
>> I have a new patch with just this behaviour, Scott is
>> testing it on old glibc (I think it succeeded, need
>> confirmation though),
>
> It worked fine on glibc 2.2.5 and 2.3.3 (the former of which failed
> without the patch).

It sounds like this is a candidate for stable 2.6.22.x as well once  
you release the patch.

- k