Subject: Re: disable paxctl for netbsd-4 (Re: segvguard [was: Re: CVS commit:
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Elad Efrat <e@murder.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/02/2007 22:40:45
YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>>> No, let's not invent a new ELF phdr type -- we don't control the ELF
>>> specification, but we do control the contents of our own PT_NOTE fields.
>> from christos, see attached patch. it moves the PaX flags to the netbsd
>> PT_NOTE. comments?
>>
>> -e.
> 
> as there seems to be a consensus that it isn't desirable to use
> PF_MASKOS for these, i'd suggest to disable paxctl for netbsd-4 to
> avoid future compatibility issues.
> 
> YAMAMOTO Takashi

the proper implementation using fileassoc could have been written in the
time period from when I pointed this out to now. :)

...anyway, I don't have a strong opinion about this, so "okay".

-e.