Re: [PATCH] [SECURITY] suid procs exec'd with bad 0,1,2 fds

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Actually a _lot_ of people run the non-excutable stack and related
> patches. They don't break anything,

They DO break things. There are languages that by design use the stack for
trampolines etc, and at least if somebody applies the unofficial patch
they have themselves to blame. 

The "stack is non-executable" patch is not going to be in the standard
kernel, with or without a config option. 

		Linus