Re: Collecting NX information

Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-28T18:37:48Z

> As I understand, PT_GNU_STACK uses a single marking to control whether a
> task gets an executable stack and whether ASLR is applied to the
> executable.

you understand wrongly.

PT_GNU_STACK just sets the exec permission for the stack (and the heap
now mirrors the stack). Nothing more nothing less.