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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:21:45 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Subject: Re: READONLY_EXEC is a curious name
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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:06:53 +0100
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:

> This is not important.
> 
> PAGE_READONLY_EXEC is defined in <asm-x86_64/pgtable.h>.
> 
> Does anyone else think PAGE_READONLY_EXEC is an odd name for a set of
> flags which enables read _and_ execute permission?  What about
> PAGE_READEXEC instead?

It just follows the pattern there (default is with NX and _EXEC is the variant
without NX). I don't care much either ways.

-Andi