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On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 11:35:36PM +0200, Daniel Cegiełka wrote:
> Vasily Kulikov published a patch for nonexecutable stack for glibc in Owl.
> 
> http://openwall.com/lists/owl-dev/2012/08/05/1
> http://openwall.com/lists/owl-dev/2012/08/05/3
> 
> Should we support this in the musl?

Yes, but there should be a way to do it without putting ugly stuff
like this in every single asm file. Why isn't there a command-line
option to the assembler to do it? Or a way to do it globally with
objcopy?

Better yet, why is executable stack even still supported by Linux at
all?

Rich