Re: [Announcement] "Exec Shield", new Linux security feature

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
2 May 2003 11:32:22 -0700

Followup to: <200305021829.h42ITclA000178@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
By author: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Slightly off-topic, but does anybody know whether IA64 or x86-64 allow
> you to make the stack non-executable in the same way you can on SPARC?
>

x86-64 definitely does, and it's the default on Linux/x86-64.

-hpa

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