From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263111AbTEBS5M (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 14:57:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263124AbTEBS5M (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 14:57:12 -0400 Received: from palrel12.hp.com ([156.153.255.237]:31121 "EHLO palrel12.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263111AbTEBS5L (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 14:57:11 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16050.49771.239186.329712@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 12:09:31 -0700 To: John Bradford Cc: mingo@redhat.com (Ingo Molnar), arjanv@redhat.com (Arjan van de Ven), davidel@xmailserver.org (Davide Libenzi), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List) Subject: Re: [Announcement] "Exec Shield", new Linux security feature In-Reply-To: <200305021829.h42ITclA000178@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> References: <200305021829.h42ITclA000178@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.2.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Fri, 2 May 2003 19:29:38 +0100 (BST), John Bradford said: John> Slightly off-topic, but does anybody know whether IA64 or x86-64 allow John> you to make the stack non-executable in the same way you can on SPARC? Not only "allow", but it's the default on ia64 linux. --david