linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

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Message-ID: <87k5y799lo.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date:	Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:40:51 +0100
From:	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To:	Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@...lingofgreen.ru>
Cc:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
	David Wagner <daw-usenet@...erner.cs.berkeley.edu>,
	LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

* Samium Gromoff:

> Lisp environments can produce standalone executables

If you've got a stand-alone executable, you don't need MAP_FIXED.  The
ELF loader maps the program at a fixed address anyway (at least on
i386 and x86_64, I haven't checked others).

AFAIK, PolyML has recently made the switch to stand-alone executables
for this reason.
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