GIMP help shouldn't need execstack, should it?

Göran Uddeborg goeran at uddeborg.se
Sat Jan 8 15:49:11 UTC 2011


Dominick Grift:
> JIT indeed is know to atleast "execmem", but i am not sure if the same
> applies to "execstack"

It appears not.  My inital guesses about execstack seems to have been
wrong.  But for some reason, enabling alllow_execstack ALSO makes the
help browser work.

> I think that help-browser needs to be labelled execmem_exec_t, see if
> that works for you.

It does.

> If it does then consider reporting it to selinux-policy

Done: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668162

> 4. i think JIT compilers generally need execmem, and that this from that
> perspective is not a bug.

Understood.  I guess any using webkitgtk could need it then.  But
there isn't any way to enable it for all using the library, but just
inside the library, is there?


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