On Fri, 5 Dec 2014, David Daney wrote: > The problem is not with "modern" executables that are properly annotated with > PT_GNU_STACK. > > My objection is to the intentional breaking of old executables that have no > PT_GNU_STACK annotation, but require an executable stack. Since we usually > try not to break userspace, we cannot merge a patch like this one. How old are these and how many are still around? Can the annotation be added with a tool?