From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Philipp Stephani
On 2016-09-11 22:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote= :
>> From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com= >
>> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:32:51 +0200
>> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Philipp Stephani = <p.stephani2@gmail.com>, 23529@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>>>>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0What about disabling randomization for = the temacs run?
>>>>
>>>> That is yet another low-level thing to configure, and to g= et right in new ports.
>>>
>>> We already have that in Emacs, don't we?
>>
>> That is exactly why I made the bug report 23529!
>>
>> Because Emacs does stuffs at build time that requires "high&q= uot;
>> privileges (like the personality() syscall), one cannot build Emac= s in
>> various restricted environments.
>>
>> Disabling randomization is exactly what we should get rid of, at l= east
>> at build time.
>
> Isn't it the other way around: the first priority is to enable
> randomization and all the other modern techniques for running the
> dumped Emacs?
I think we want to be able to build the full Emacs in a container; that is = without needing, at any point in the process, to disable randomization.=C2= =A0 If I understand correctly, this means that even the process of dumping = Emacs cannot involve disabling randomization.