On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:58:45AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > Um, how is that significantly different to PT_GNU_STACK? The kernel/ld > needs to check that section's contents for a "x". No, it doesn't. The kernel gets the stack permissions from Phdr.p_flags & (PF_X | PF_W | PF_R) Though it would of course be surprising if W and R weren't set. ;-) r~