Re: [Fwd: [Help-smalltalk] patch to sigsev]

[Paolo Bonzini]

Frederik, this is what I got from my fellow libsigsegv maintainer, Bruno 
Haible.  For the sake of archiviation, I'm cross posting to the GNU 
Smalltalk mailing list too.

> > Hi Bruno, I just got this patch.  Do you think this is worthwhile to 
> > port it to current libsigsegv CVS?
>
> It would be worthwhile to test libsigsegv on a PaX enabled system. But
> whether this patch helps, I don't know:
>   - The first part is glibc specific, while PaX also exists for OpenBSD
>     and Woe32.
>   - The second part is simple enough - it appears to disable /proc/pid/maps
>     lines with start = end = 0 -, but in the current PaX patch for Linux 2.6
>     I don't see code which would cause such "hiding" of VMA regions.

Paolo