Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:06:28 +0100 (BST) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: Non-executable mappings now in NetBSD too Message-ID: <20030830230628.98508.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030830221458.GC85746@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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(FWIW, Theo claims his changes are only enforcing POSIX.)
--- Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote:
...
>
> Does OpenBSD support any JIT JVM?
>
Hmmm... no, looks like they run our (or the linux) JVM under emulation.
> > If perl didn't break, I think Java will survive too.
>
> Emacs and perl both use traditional bytecode interpreters, as does the
> Classic JVM. I agree they will be unaffected. This change will only
> impact JIT JVMs.
>
Well, we only have a JIT JVM for the i386, and on the particular case of the
i386 we cannot enforce full protection anyways so there is probably a
workaround if we do need it.
cheers,
Pedro.
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