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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> There are probably more.

So? Do you expect to never fix them, or what?

The fact is, a program that tries to execute without using PROT_EXEC is a 
buggy program. 

Are there buggy programs out there? Yes. We should fix them.

		Linus