On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 13:25 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Furthermore, if testing shows that this is not actually breaking > anything in a serious way we could also in theory simplify the patch > and just make this the default behavior with no runtime ability to > switch it off. I'm afraid it's impossible. From -ow readme: "Of course, this breaks the way things are defined, so some applications might stop working. In particular, expect most commercial databases to break. Apache and PostgreSQL are known to work, though. :-)" http://www.openwall.com/linux/README.shtml But as it was written in days of Linux 2.4.x, the situation could have changed. A desktop system seems to work. Thanks, -- Vasiliy Kulikov http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
