On 2016-09-11 22:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Philippe Vaucher >> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:32:51 +0200 >> Cc: Paul Eggert , Philipp Stephani , 23529@debbugs.gnu.org >> >>>> What about disabling randomization for the temacs run? >>>> >>>> That is yet another low-level thing to configure, and to get right in new ports. >>> >>> We already have that in Emacs, don't we? >> >> That is exactly why I made the bug report 23529! >> >> Because Emacs does stuffs at build time that requires "high" >> privileges (like the personality() syscall), one cannot build Emacs in >> various restricted environments. >> >> Disabling randomization is exactly what we should get rid of, at least >> at build time. > > Isn't it the other way around: the first priority is to enable > randomization and all the other modern techniques for running the > dumped Emacs? I think we want to be able to build the full Emacs in a container; that is without needing, at any point in the process, to disable randomization. If I understand correctly, this means that even the process of dumping Emacs cannot involve disabling randomization. Clément.