Re: Mounting /dev/shm noexec

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Andy Smith wrote:

...

>Though note that it seems systemd once did use "noexec" for /dev/shm
>but stopped 10 years ago because it broke some uses of mmap:
>
>    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/501c875bffaef3263ad42c32485c7fde41027175

libffi also has a habit of using /dev/shm for writing temporary
trampolines for cross-language calls, and they need to be executable.

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