From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 19:42:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 19:42:12 -0400 Received: from carthage.proaxis.com ([216.65.131.35]:11655 "EHLO carthage.proaxis.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 19:41:56 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Ray Lischner Reply-To: lisch@tempest-sw.com Organization: Tempest Software To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: What does MAP_EXECUTABLE do? Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 16:44:46 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080916444603.27109@sycorax> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Running man mmap produces the enlightening text, "Linux also knows about ... MAP_EXECUTABLE ..." but does nto tell me what MAP_EXECUTABLE actually does, and how it differs from using PROT_EXEC. Reading the source code has not helped me much. -- Ray Lischner (http://www.tempest-sw.com/)