Re: make PROT_WRITE imply PROT_READ

On 6/29/06, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:

the thing is.. you can say EXACTLY the same about PROT_EXEC.. not all
processors support enforcing that.. so should we just always imply
PROT_EXEC as well?

There is a fundamental difference: not setting PROT_EXEC has no
negative side effects.  You might be able to execute code and it just
works.

With PROT_READ this is not the case, there _are_ side effects which are visible.
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