Non-executable mappings now in NetBSD too

[Pedro F. Giffuni]

(FWIW, Theo claims his changes are only enforcing POSIX.)

 --- Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote: 

...
> 
> Does OpenBSD support any JIT JVM?
> 

Hmmm... no, looks like they run our (or the linux) JVM under emulation.

> > If perl didn't break, I think Java will survive too.
> 
> Emacs and perl both use traditional bytecode interpreters, as does the
> Classic JVM.  I agree they will be unaffected.  This change will only
> impact JIT JVMs.
> 

Well, we only have a JIT JVM for the i386, and on the particular case of the
i386 we cannot enforce full protection anyways so there is probably a
workaround if we do need it. 

cheers,

    Pedro.

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