On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

:  > I believe this change is VERY, VERY WRONG, as it specifically breaks
:  > valid usage of mprotect(2).  I wouldn't be at all surprised to find
:  > out that it actually breaks some software that does dynamic code
:  > compilation.
:
: Also, you should take a look at the actual change (I'm not sure that
: you actually did!).  It's a one-liner, in the ((flags & MAP_ANON) == 0)
: case of sys_mmap().  Anonymous mappings still get VM_PROT_ALL as the
: maxprot.  I should have been more clear about this in my commit message.

Perhaps the syscall should be versioned?

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