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Subject: Re: 32 bit userland on G5
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 12:25 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Since apparently the G5 honours no-execute permissions, shouldn't the 64
> bit kernel set the READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality flag for 32-bit
> userland?

Why? Just because older hardware wasn't capable of enforcing the
permissions, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't enforce them now.

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dwmw2