New submission from Adam Goode <a...@spicenitz.org>: On Fedora systems, it is invalid to mmap something with PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC. libffi has been updated to support this, but ctypes has not been updated to use this new functionality.
Attached is a patch which currently only works if system libffi is used. Though the embedded version of libffi is new enough, it is missing the allocation and free functions. I know how I would update the ctypes libffi/ directory (add the alloc/free files), but not sure about the other libffi directories (darwin, arm_wince, msvc, osx). I suppose those would all need to be upgraded, or perhaps even made to use the standard libffi instead of special forks of it. Note that this also eliminates the malloc_closure code. ---------- assignee: theller components: ctypes files: ctypes-newffi.patch keywords: patch messages: 83734 nosy: agoode, theller severity: normal status: open title: ctypes should work with systems where mmap can't be PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC type: crash versions: Python 2.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13363/ctypes-newffi.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5504> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
