From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `exec shield' test in configure too strict?
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:40:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BB337EDE-170E-11D9-8D1E-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041004212031.GB2219@fencepost>
>>> and so emacs refuses to configure -- but if disable this test by
>>> doing:
>>>
>>> $ make ac_cv_file__proc_sys_kernel_exec_shield=no
>>>
>>> Then Emacs configures and dumps just fine, despite not using
>>> `setarch'.
>>
>> Does that machine have a /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield-randomize file?
>
> Yes:
>
> $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield-randomize
> 1
>
>> It is the random start address of the heap that makes dumping fail.
>>
I have checked in a test that runs a program and sees if the heap start
address is random. Can you try it on the Debian-with-a-Redhat-kernel
machine (I forgot its name)?
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-05 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-04 5:53 `exec shield' test in configure too strict? Miles Bader
2004-10-04 15:04 ` Jan D.
2004-10-04 21:20 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-04 21:37 ` Jan D.
2004-10-05 20:40 ` Jan D. [this message]
2004-10-05 21:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-05 22:11 ` Jan D.
2004-10-06 0:18 ` Stefan
2004-10-06 1:34 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-06 7:50 ` Jan D.
2004-10-06 7:56 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-06 11:31 ` Jan D.
2004-10-06 7:48 ` Jan D.
2004-10-06 12:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-06 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-10-06 11:38 ` Jan D.
2004-10-07 15:44 ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-07 16:44 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-07 18:16 ` Jan D.
2004-10-09 1:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-11 10:30 ` Jan D.
2004-10-12 8:56 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-20 20:33 ` Jan D.
2004-10-21 13:57 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-22 21:02 ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-25 19:05 ` Jan D.
2004-10-26 20:24 ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-27 10:48 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-27 12:17 ` Jan D.
2004-11-06 17:00 ` other unexec problems Camm Maguire
2004-11-09 7:58 ` Jan D.
2004-10-05 18:04 ` `exec shield' test in configure too strict? Richard Stallman
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