Sorry to be late. > Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What I remember is that Red Hat enables a feature in Linux that (I > > believe) uses the address space differently. unexelf.c doesn't handle > > it right. > > > > I don't remember the name of the feature, but I'm sure other people > > on this list remember the name. > > exec_shield is one such feature, and newer kernels use something like, > uh, /proc/sys/vm/randomize_... (I don't remember the particular name > right now and don't have a Fedora active). The latter loaded > executables' memory segments into randomized locations to make buffer > overflow attacks less predictable. > > exec_shield could be gotten around with using > setarch i386 make > and configure does that already IIRC. But the address space > randomization was prohibiting the dumping even with the setarch > command.
Could you tell me the kernel version or the OS version? I'm using Fedora core 1 and Fedora core 3. I cannot reproduce the problem on the platforms. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
