On Thu, 10 May 2007 06:56:55 -0400, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: 

> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:20:07AM +0200, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> 
>> Why does lynx need an executable stack?

> It doesn't.  The error message states that liblzo requires the
> executable stack.

        Beg pardon. I missed that. But still, the ability to execute
 writable segments of memory is the source of many security concerns,
 and this is not just the execmem capability, but the execstack.  I
 can see execmem being used for run-time generation of code (JIT
 compilation for java, for example).

        I am not convinced liblzo actually _needs_ run time code
 generation.

        manoj
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