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"Exec Shield" for Linux

"Exec Shield" for Linux

Posted May 2, 2003 21:14 UTC (Fri) by john54 (guest, #10988)
In reply to: "Exec Shield" for Linux by welinder
Parent article: "Exec Shield" for Linux

As far as I can see, it should not be a problem, as long as Wine creates those DLL areas as PROT_EXEC - which it probably already does. Alot of other code would break if that were not possible - such as the Linux dynamic linker.


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