Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> - Stack would be non-executable by default > An advantage, certainly, although if someone is paranoid (and has no > self-modifying code that would choke on it), this can be done for 32-bit with > an /etc/system setting.
The ON consolidation, and some others, already ensure that 32 bit programs are built with a non executable stack. It is the default on ON and can easily be done in other consolidations by using the linker mapfile /usr/lib/ld/map.noexstk. -- Darren J Moffat
