Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Albert Cahalan writes: > >> If you want heap protection, change VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS32 >> in include/asm-powerpc/page.h to be like VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS. >> I'd love to hear if anybody can get X to start with this change. > > In general I would expect dynamically-linked programs to fail unless > you compile everything with gcc -msecure-plt.
X (before X.org 7) does it's own module loading that cannot cope with a non-executable heap. X.org 7, on the other hand, uses dlopen now and should work fine. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
