Exec-shield and memory randomization

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Sun Jul 31 10:16:13 UTC 2005


On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 10:29:28AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "AvdV" == Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> AvdV> I wonder why the app breaks; randomisation doesn't do anything
> AvdV> weird at all, in fact even before this stuff got in there was
> AvdV> some extend of randomisation already.
> 
> Haven't Lisp systems historically been problematic with respect to any
> changes in memory layout?

this isn't a change really; eg what randomisation does can happen anyway if you
do say,
 yum update glibc




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