exec-shield (was: Re: Problem with Loki games on Severn)

[M A Young]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Christian Iseli wrote:
>
> > Now, if anyone could kindly explain why it works with exec-shield == 3
> > (always-enabled) and dies with exec-shield == 2 (default enabled,
> except binaries that disable it)...  That doesn't make sense to me.
>
> Well, only 0, 1, and 2 are valid value.  Your use of 3 is the same as 0.
> So no wonder it works if 0 works.

So to avoid confusion, what do 0, 1, and 2 mean? And what is
exec-shield-randomize? And did you tell the people writing the next beta's
release notes of these changes? While you are at it, you could update
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/exec-shield/ANNOUNCE-exec-shield
as well!

	Michael Young