mono vs exec-shield

[Peter Jones]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 11:12 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 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?

Are you running with SELinux enabled?  Policy can disallow this
outright...  Although at first glance it looks like policy currently
allows execheap and execmem (but not execstack) for mono.

-- 
  Peter