> Ingo, do you want protection against shell code injection ? Have the
> kernel to assign random stack addresses to processes and they won't be
> able to guess the stack pointer to place the jump.
If your software is broken enough to have buffer overflow bugs, it's
not entirely unlikely that it leaks the stack address as well (IIRC,
BIND 8 did).
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