Re: [RFC][PATCH] Control ability to have a writable executable mapping

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 10:15, Joshua Brindle <jbrindle@tresys.com> wrote:
> I can't think of any circumstances where the domain which an application
> is in should have an impact on it's PaX flags.

Maybe instances of the application running in different domains will be permitted to load different DSOs such that one domain is permitted to load a DSO which wants write-execute access while another domain is not permitted to load such DSOs.

It's just a hypothetical, I don't know of an example of this happening.

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