Editing Exec Shield (section)

== History ==
Exec Shield was developed by various people at Red Hat; the first patch was released by [[Ingo Molnar]] of Red Hat and first released in May 2003. It is part of Fedora Core 1 through 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux since version 3.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/fc1/x86/ |title=Fedora Core 1 Release Notes |access-date=2007-10-18 |date=November 2003 |work=Red Hat, Inc. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031202145058/http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/ |archive-date=2003-12-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/rhel/WHP0006US_Execshield.pdf |title=New Security Enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3, update 3 |access-date=2007-10-18 |last=van de Ven |first=Arjan |date=August 2004 |work=Red Hat, Inc. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050512030425/http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/rhel/WHP0006US_Execshield.pdf |archive-date=2005-05-12 }}</ref> Other people involved include Jakub Jelínek, [[Ulrich Drepper]], Richard Henderson and Arjan van de Ven.

Molnar commented in 2007 on [[LWN.net]] that "bits of [exec-shield] went upstream, but a fair chunk didn't."<ref>{{cite web |title=time it takes to get a project into the upstream kernel [LWN.net] |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/242912/ |website=lwn.net}}</ref>