I agree completely, but from the linked article: > One day far in the future upstream software developers will understand that W^X violations are a tremendousl

I agree completely, but from the linked article: > One day far in the future upstream software developers will understand that W^X violations are a tremendously risky practice and that style of programming will be banished outright. Whoever wrote that they should be banned outright, I feel is being very short-sighted. It would be like banning cars because it's possible to seriously injure a person with one. tj later replied to me on Twitter saying they meant for it to become per-process in the future. Once that happens, I'll be okay with this change. Right now, I think filesystem-level is far too broad. I often will want an emulator on the same filesystem as I want W^X protections for other applications on.