Mailing List Archive: Executable stacks

Executable stacks

Jan 17, 2006, 8:58 AM

Post #1 of 4 (1857 views)

Recently, I've been getting warnings during emerge sessions on my
Blade 100 (2.4 kernel, sparc64/2005.1 profile):

QA Notice: the following files contain executable stacks
Files with executable stacks will not work properly (or at all!)
on some architectures/operating systems. A bug should be filed
at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ to make sure the file is fixed.

Nothing seems broken, and so far I've ignored them, but I'm wondering
if I should be paying closer attention here...

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Re: Executable stacks [ In reply to ]

warnera6 at egr

Jan 17, 2006, 9:07 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1806 views)

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I thought that check was only in portage-2.1, but regaradless,
exectuable stacks are not yet fixable on sparc to my knowledge ( talked
to vapier about it a bit ago ) and sparc is not checked for executable
stacks in the trunk of portage, but that fix has not yet been released.
In conclusion, ignore it because it can't necessarily be fixed on sparc
anyhow ;)

Paul Heinlein wrote:

> Recently, I've been getting warnings during emerge sessions on my
> Blade 100 (2.4 kernel, sparc64/2005.1 profile):
>
> QA Notice: the following files contain executable stacks
> Files with executable stacks will not work properly (or at all!)
> on some architectures/operating systems. A bug should be filed
> at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ to make sure the file is fixed.
>
> Nothing seems broken, and so far I've ignored them, but I'm wondering
> if I should be paying closer attention here...
>

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Re: Executable stacks [ In reply to ]

ciaranm at gentoo

Jan 17, 2006, 9:15 AM

Post #3 of 4 (1811 views)

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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:58:23 -0800 (PST) Paul Heinlein
<heinlein@madboa.com> wrote:
| Recently, I've been getting warnings during emerge sessions on my
| Blade 100 (2.4 kernel, sparc64/2005.1 profile):
|
| QA Notice: the following files contain executable stacks
| Files with executable stacks will not work properly (or at all!)
| on some architectures/operating systems. A bug should be filed
| at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ to make sure the file is fixed.
|
| Nothing seems broken, and so far I've ignored them, but I'm wondering
| if I should be paying closer attention here...

This is another example of blatantly irresponsible behaviour from a few
of our hardened developers. The warning is nonsense and should be
ignored.

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Re: Executable stacks [ In reply to ]

heinlein at madboa

Jan 17, 2006, 9:29 AM

Post #4 of 4 (1810 views)

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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Alec Warner wrote:

> I thought that check was only in portage-2.1, but regaradless,
> exectuable stacks are not yet fixable on sparc to my knowledge (
> talked to vapier about it a bit ago ) and sparc is not checked for
> executable stacks in the trunk of portage, but that fix has not yet
> been released. In conclusion, ignore it because it can't
> necessarily be fixed on sparc anyhow ;)

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> This is another example of blatantly irresponsible behaviour from a
> few of our hardened developers. The warning is nonsense and should
> be ignored.

Thanks, Alec and Ciaran, for your prompt and clear replies!

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