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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: About this non-exec stack
From:       Tobias Weingartner <weingart () natasha ! tepid ! org>
Date:       2002-08-28 19:49:15
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On Wednesday, August 28, "Dave Feustel" wrote:
> 
> A recent posting to this thread pointed out that x86 
> implementations of OpenBSD can't implement non-executeable
> stacks since the x86 paging hardware doesn't provide
> for this option. The AMD Hammer paging hardware
> *does* provide for flagging pages as non-executeable.
> There is a description of this paging feature in vol2
> of the AMD x86-64 programmer's manual.

Now would someone gimme some hardware?!?  :-)

--Toby.

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