mono vs exec-shield

[David Nielsen]

tor, 19 10 2006 kl. 11:12 +0200, skrev Alexander Larsson:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210830 describes an
> issue where mono crashes on startup with later kernels that have
> exec-shield enabled. I don't see this on my Core Duo machine, so I don't
> know exactly what machines see this. Anyone else see this?
> 
> Mono does use mprotect to make the heap pages executable. Is there
> something in exec-shield prohibiting this for some machines? If so, is
> there a way to disable this for the mono binary?

All my Mono applications run just fine on my AMD64 X2 with SELinux
enabled and what other security features come default with FC6, I can't
say I've seen this bug. Most of my frequently used applications run
using mono so I guess I would have complained loudly if they crashed on
startup.

- David Nielsen
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