> fortunately there's this 'NX-emulation' thing called exec-shield which > is part of Fedora (and has been part of it for almost 2 years) and did > all the testing for you on all x86 hardware, on thousands of packages > and on over a ten thousand binaries, well in advance of this going > upstream. It wasnt a bump-free ride, but it was worth it.
But apparently a completely different patch was tested with quite different semantics. > > (the Mono bug was found this way, the Grub one wasnt, due to it being But not fixed in mainline mono. And also as far as I can figure out there was no effort to warn user land people about this intrusive change, and tell them what they need to do when they recompile. > RWE. But if it triggers it shows up immediately so it's not like you > have no sign that something wrong is going on. Only grub-install > triggers it and no boot/install kernel i know of defaults to > PAE-enabled, that's what caused grub-install being used in an NX > scenario so infrequently.) > > anyway, this particular flamewar might have made more sense last Summer. Last summer nobody did change the 32bit ABI on x86-64. I only started it because the bug reports are appearing now and it's clear now that we have a problem. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
