Juho Snellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings! I am a developer of GCL, which shares unexec with emacs. > > I have noticed on certain recent Fedora Core 4 machines, binaries > > produced with unexec cannot mprotect memory (allocated with brk) > > PROT_EXEC (returning EACCESS, i.e. permission denied), whereas > > binaries output by ld can do so just fine. This does not vary with > > exec-shield or randomize_va_space settings, and appears quite machine > > specific. The same binary which functions perfectly normally on one > > fc4 machine shows this failure only on another machine. I have as yet > > been unable to correlate this with dynamic library placement, or other > > settings in /proc/sys. > > Just a guess, but this might be related to SELinux. Do the machines > have differences in /etc/selinux/config? >
Bingo! (I think) The config files are identical, but the problem machine has a 'strict' subdirectory with a host of files and options. Any idea of what I should look for herein, and what this could have to do with unexec vs ld? Thank you so much! > -- > Juho Snellman > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gcl-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
