From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jun 30 5:10:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4174737B400 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 05:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crewsoft.com (papua.crewsoft.com [198.232.247.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B044A43E0A for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 05:10:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cedric@wireless-networks.com) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (account cberger@wireless-networks.com HELO wireless-networks.com) by crewsoft.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.7) with ESMTP id 5379171; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 05:09:56 -0700 Message-ID: <3D1EF628.5090105@wireless-networks.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:14:32 +0200 From: Cedric Berger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to make the stack non-executable? References: <3D1E28ED.B67A5271@FreeBSD.org> <3D1E3126.C96FFAA5@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: >We've identified a number of issues that might make doing this >problematic, and on which there needs to be feedback: > >o Java; specifically, JITs may rely on an executable > stack. Neither of us knows if this is true, for > sure. > It is the default (noexec_user_stack) for 64-bit Solaris. http://docs.sun.com/?q=noexec_user_stack&p=/doc/806-7009/6jftnqsis&a=view Since I doubt Sun would set a default which makes Java unusable, It seems to me that Java has a good probability to be OK with that. Or am I missing something? Cedric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message