Re: Needed for the release

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Masatake YAMATO <address@hidden> 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/

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Michael Welsh Duggan
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