Just as a heads up: Linus accepted the patch to make the default rights on a data page (stack and heap) architecture dependent. I'm planning to turn off execute permission on data and stack pages soon (2.4.18 and 2.5.5, respectively); if you have any legitimate concern about this, now is the time to speak up! Once the default execute permissions are gone, we can get rid of the lazy-execute bit code, which will obviate the need for an ia64-specific page fault handler and speed up programs that do dynamic code generation. Thanks, --davidReceived on Mon Feb 11 22:12:45 2002
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