FreeBSD and DEP aka "NX bit"?

[Andrew Reilly]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:28:07AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd at areilly.bpc-users.org> [080826 00:51] wrote:
> > I've been using 7-STABLE on amd64 for a long time, and haven't
> > noticed any problems with Java or SBCL lisp or PLT-scheme, all
> > of which use JIT code generation (but probably neither use
> > jemalloc?)
> 
> mprotect(2)?

Fair enough.  Good to know that it's actually tweaking the NX
permissions, I guess.  The man page seems a little vague about
when it might succeed, and what effect it might have...

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew