Re: What does MAP_EXECUTABLE do?

Pete Wyckoff
2001-08-10T11:13:38Z

lisch@tempest-sw.com said:
> 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.

PROT_EXEC tells the VM system the area is executable code.

MAP_EXECUTABLE says this mapping is the actual executable file itself,
not a shared library, trampoline, or other executable thing.

Only used for /proc/pid/exe link and /proc/pid/status VmExe field.

You can't set it via mmap() from userspace; the kernel uses it
internally when execing an elf or a.out file.

-- Pete