GNU bug report logs - #23529
Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues

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Message #173 received at 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com>
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23529: Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 05:30:51 +0300

> From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:32:51 +0200
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, 23529 <at> 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?

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