Bug#441387: Misleading mprotect manpage

2007-09-10 Thread François Diakhate
Michael Kerrisk wrote: tags 441387 fixed-upstream thanks Hello François, Hello Michael, The mprotect manpage specifies that: "Whether PROT_EXEC has any effect different from PROT_READ is architecture and kernel version dependent." which is true, but it should also specify that whether

Bug#441387: Misleading mprotect manpage

2007-09-09 Thread Michael Kerrisk
tags 441387 fixed-upstream thanks Hello François, > The mprotect manpage specifies that: > > "Whether PROT_EXEC has any effect different from PROT_READ is > architecture and kernel version dependent." > > which is true, but it should also specify that whether PROT_WRITE > implies PROT_READ is

Bug#441387: Misleading mprotect manpage

2007-09-09 Thread François Diakhate
Package: manpages-dev Version: 2.39-1 The mprotect manpage specifies that: "Whether PROT_EXEC has any effect different from PROT_READ is architecture and kernel version dependent." which is true, but it should also specify that whether PROT_WRITE implies PROT_READ is architecture dependant