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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:50:53 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: Non-executable mappings now in NetBSD too
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Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> wrote:

> The OpenBSD work on tightening up read/write/exec memory permissions
> looks interesting, but I wonder what impact it has on
> JIT technologies; do the current Java VMs or other incremental
> compilation engines require write+exec?

You can disable W^X for individual executables (ld -Z).

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de