What are the "pax-linux" patches?

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What are the "pax-linux" patches?

Postby dserrano5 » Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:51 am

Hi,

I'm an old (2003) grsec user, I can even see my old posts in this forum :) (but I've just registered a new user account). Glad to see the project is alive!

I'm about to install grsec-2.2.2-2.6.39.2 in a Debian box. At the downloads page, I see the usual suspects (the kernel patch and gradm) but there's also a bunch of "pax-linux-*-test*.patch". What are these? I see they don't apply to a kernel tree already patched with grsec. Searching for "pax-linux" in the forum returned 0 results so I'm at a loss.
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Re: What are the "pax-linux" patches?

Postby PaX Team » Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:04 pm

dserrano5 wrote:but there's also a bunch of "pax-linux-*-test*.patch". What are these?
they're the PaX patches themselves, already included in grsec.
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