On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:52:25 -0700 Guy Fraser <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After fighting with prelink, I was finaly able to get wine working > again, by disabling exec-shield in prelink. > > This is the first I have heard of it, and I have been working with Linux > since 95, and RHL since 97. It's new to Fedora > > What is it for and why would it be wanted? In short it provides protection against exploits specifically stack, buffer and function pointer overflows. It is not a full solution to killing all shellcode and exploits. But you wont take a significant performance hit so It's worth it. This is a good thing, I hope you re-enable it. #press relese http://people.redhat.com/mingo/exec-shield/ANNOUNCE-exec-shield #very technical information http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200311/msg00090.html The second link has tons of good info in its follow ups. > > -- > Guy Fraser > > > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
