At Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:16:12 -0500,
Jakub Jelinek wrote:
quoted text >
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:06:45AM +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> > Should we introduce per-arch asm/elf.h files to hold the relevant flag definitions then?
>
> On some architectures there are no bits left. On others you'd need to go
> through whomever maintains the relevant psABI to get a bit officially
> allocated. Really, it is very bad idea to use e_flags for this.
Currently arch_align_stack() and mmap_base() perform randomisation only on x86
and x86_64, so it is only two architectures anyway...
quoted text > If all you care about is running setuid LISP programs, you'd much better put
> your energy into fixing the buggy ELF dumper in it.
>
> Jakub
regards, Samium Gromoff
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Define the EF_AS_NO_RANDOM e_flag bit , Samium Gromoff , (Tue Jan 23, 2:54 pm)