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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>,
	Linux Kernel mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: noexec=on doesn't work
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:22:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4581C0B2.1010500@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <457B0FD7.2030804@comcast.net>

John Richard Moser wrote:
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> I'm running on an Athlon 64 in 32-bit mode, running 32-bit Ubuntu with
> kernel 2.6.19 (Ubuntu version 2.6.19-7-generic for the curious;
> compiled for 586).  Apparently, 'noexec=on' on the kernel command line
> does nothing; the NX bit seems to not work.

Straining my memories of i586, I don't think that it even COULD do 
noexec... I don't have any here to try at the moment. In any case an 
option which isn't known or isn't implemented should generate a warning.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-14 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-09 19:34 noexec=on doesn't work John Richard Moser
2006-12-09 20:03 ` Kyle McMartin
2006-12-09 20:10   ` John Richard Moser
2006-12-11 19:53   ` Eric Piel
2006-12-11 22:01     ` John Richard Moser
2006-12-14 21:22 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]

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