Defining a section that isn't file-backed

[Mike Hearn]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 00:28, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> ELF sections created using the assembler .section pseudo-op are
> read-only by default.  They only acquire the write flag if you specify
> it explicitly.

Does the "a" flag include write as well? If not then I'm not sure why
the section is being mmapped rwx - are there other factors that can
influence this?

thanks -mike