Daniel J Walsh wrote:
Any time I go into a rawhide I enable the tightest controls. Then
relax them as we get closer to Beta. I am thinking of dropping
execmem protection from user apps altogether as I see almost all
applications that a user relies on needing execmem. The attached
regular expressions match all of the executables that we are currently
marking as needing execmem protection.
Anything that directly or indirectly uses QtWebKit or QtScript also requires
execmem, unless we disable the JavaScript JIT, which we used to do, but got
users complaining about the slowness.
See also:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35154
which is being ignored entirely by upstream.
Kevin Kofler