Wine/Cedega and fedora 3

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Mon Dec 6 15:10:24 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 09:53 -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:52:21AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > When put differently it sounds a bad idea to me. Perhaps Transgaming could
> > lookg into why their software is making memory layout and exec assumptions
> > (assuming they haven't already of course) ? If it is tripping a real bug it
> > would be useful to know
> 
> Don't forget that it's not always possible to fix the broken app.
> In this case, Wine/Cedega are trying to run binary Windows apps
> that expect a certain layout. They may have their relocation record
> stripped, and on.

I'm at a loss why we should use less secure defaults to accommodate the
proprietary Cedega running (likely) proprietary Windows applications.

Nils
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