Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:46 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:11:20PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
>  > so, i'm glad to report, it's a non-issue. Sometimes developers want to
>  > disable randomisation during development (quick'n'easy hacks get quicker
>  > and easier - e.g. if you watch an address within gdb), so having the
>  > capability for unprivileged users to disable randomisation on the fly is
>  > useful and Fedora certainly offers that, but from a support and
>  > bug-reporting POV it's not a problem.
> 
> It's worth noting that some users have found the randomisation disable useful
> for running things like xine/mplayer etc with win32 codecs that seem
> to just segfault otherwise.  These things seem to be incredibly fragile
> to address space layout changes, which is a good argument for trying to
> avoid these wierdo formats where possible in favour of free codecs.

actually that's because windows has a different initial stack alignment
that wine compensates but I guess xine/mplayer don't.
with p4's you get that anyway (and glibc and ..)



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