Re: [patch] remove MNT_NOEXEC check for PROT_EXEC mmaps

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Hi.

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
Definitely not.  The test should stay.  It does the right thing.  Yes,
some applications might break, but this is the fault of the application.
But why exactly? They do:
shm_open();
mmap(PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC);
and mmap fails.
Where is the fault of an app here?

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