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Re: Upstreaming the glibc Hurd port


On 04/02/2018 02:10 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
- elf/check-execstack: We have nested functions which make the stack
   executable indeed.

I looked at the Hurd situation last month. Hurd is always read-implies-exec, I think. So there is no need to make the stacks executable, it does not have any observable effect on execution and therefore cannot be tested.

Thanks,
Florian


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