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

David Mosberger (davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com)
Fri, 2 May 2003 12:09:31 -0700


>>>>> On Fri, 2 May 2003 19:29:38 +0100 (BST), John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> said:

John> Slightly off-topic, but does anybody know whether IA64 or x86-64 allow
John> you to make the stack non-executable in the same way you can on SPARC?

Not only "allow", but it's the default on ia64 linux.

--david
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