Thanks, this solved the problem. Do you know where I can find documentation about this setting (/proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield) ? I'm a little surprised with that kind of changes. In my knowledge, a callback to a nested function is a usual way of doing some things ... Vincent. On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 10:21 +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: > Vincent De Groote wrote: > > > I've just switched from kernel 2.6.11_1.27_FC3 to 2.6.11_1.35_FC3. > > The following program makes a segmentation violation when I use the > The default settings of /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield was changed from 1 > to 2. That causes the segmentation fault of some programs. > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=111995018314614&w=2 > > > Olaf >