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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:56:23 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia32 support for NX when sigaction->sa_restorer == NULL
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Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com> writes:

> When userland doesn't specify sigaction->sa_restorer, we try to put
> the restorer code on the stack. But this breaks ia32 binaries with
> non-executable stacks. We now put the restorer code on a gate page.

Does this work with nested signal handlers?

Andreas.

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