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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 04:07:21 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: java

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:03:07PM -0400, Bill Jaeger wrote:
> 
> Hmmm...I'm not sure that the FAQ you cited is correct.  We've used
> non-chstk'd flavors of Sun's JDK (v1.2.x and v1.3.x) for about two years on
> openwall/hap-enhanced kernels with the non-executable user stack option
> enabled.  We haven't run into any problems with doing so.

(I've asked Bill to post this to the list for others to comment.)

I've got just one report of JDK 1.3 not working without chstk -e, that
person may have done something wrong.

I don't know if Galaxy has tried _without_ the chstk (that was already
in the FAQ by the time).

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/sd

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