From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Needed for the release Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:56:59 -0400 Message-ID: <87slzip1tw.fsf@cs.cmu.edu> References: <85is0lokfm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20050616.132953.24321996.jet@gyve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118948062 17753 80.91.229.2 (16 Jun 2005 18:54:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:54:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 16 20:54:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DizV8-0001cG-DH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:54:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dizab-0004AW-4n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:59:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DizZL-0003n8-Al for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:58:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DizZJ-0003mS-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:58:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DizZJ-0003ln-2y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:58:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [205.201.10.244] (helo=maru) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Diza9-0007VC-O9; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from md5i by maru with local (Exim 4.51) id 1DizXw-000812-1b; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:57:00 -0400 Original-To: Masatake YAMATO In-Reply-To: <20050616.132953.24321996.jet@gyve.org> (Masatake YAMATO's message of "Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:29:53 +0900 (JST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38978 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38978 Masatake YAMATO writes: >> exec_shield could be gotten around with using >> setarch i386 make >> and configure does that already IIRC. But the address space >> randomization was prohibiting the dumping even with the setarch >> command. >> >> It may be possible for unexec to get around that problem by writing a >> suitable kind of file that won't allow the randomization. It might >> need to deal with the effects of randomization at the time temacs was >> run, but this might not be impossible. One would need to study the >> details of the feature. >> >> Masatake-san, would you like to study the details and see? >> >> They don't describe the new randomizing features though. >> >> If we can't find any documentation of these features, >> we can try asking people in Red Hat to describe them. >> I have some contacts to ask. > > I can do it by myself. I'm at Red hat:-) > Give me time. I found the following which might help: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/arjan/randomize/ -- Michael Welsh Duggan (md5i@cs.cmu.edu)