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Message-ID: <20120805214624.GL544@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 17:46:25 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: noexecstack

On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 11:35:36PM +0200, Daniel Cegiełka wrote:
> Vasily Kulikov published a patch for nonexecutable stack for glibc in Owl.
> 
> http://openwall.com/lists/owl-dev/2012/08/05/1
> http://openwall.com/lists/owl-dev/2012/08/05/3
> 
> Should we support this in the musl?

Yes, but there should be a way to do it without putting ugly stuff
like this in every single asm file. Why isn't there a command-line
option to the assembler to do it? Or a way to do it globally with
objcopy?

Better yet, why is executable stack even still supported by Linux at
all?

Rich

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