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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:06:53 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: READONLY_EXEC is a curious name
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This is not important.

PAGE_READONLY_EXEC is defined in <asm-x86_64/pgtable.h>.

Does anyone else think PAGE_READONLY_EXEC is an odd name for a set of
flags which enables read _and_ execute permission?  What about
PAGE_READEXEC instead?

-- Jamie