Non-executable mappings now in NetBSD too

[Christian Weisgerber]

Tim Kientzle <kientzle at acm.org> wrote:

> The OpenBSD work on tightening up read/write/exec memory permissions
> looks interesting, but I wonder what impact it has on
> JIT technologies; do the current Java VMs or other incremental
> compilation engines require write+exec?

You can disable W^X for individual executables (ld -Z).

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de