unexec and fedora core 4

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  I am a developer of GCL, which shares unexec with emacs.
I have noticed on certain recent Fedora Core 4 machines, binaries
produced with unexec cannot mprotect memory (allocated with brk)
PROT_EXEC (returning EACCESS, i.e. permission denied), whereas
binaries output by ld can do so just fine.  This does not vary with
exec-shield or randomize_va_space settings, and appears quite machine
specific.  The same binary which functions perfectly normally on one
fc4 machine shows this failure only on another machine.  I have as yet
been unable to correlate this with dynamic library placement, or other
settings in /proc/sys.

If this rings any bells with anyone, I'd be most appreciative for any
enlightenment. 

Take care,
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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