On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 09:02 -0600, Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 08:45 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 16:56 -0600, Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > > > what allows java to create a new thread? execmem? execstack? > > > > execmem/execstack are memory controls, not thread controls. > > That's what I was thinking, but without allowing execmem, java can't > seem to start up a new thread. I know for the longest time, java on > Linux didn't use the standard thread API, so I thought that might be the > cause. I'm just curious to see if anyone knows why this seems to be > required for java to do it's thing with regards to threads. BTW, java does require execmem in order to do runtime code generation regardless of the threads issue. -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
