On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:46 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:11:20PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > so, i'm glad to report, it's a non-issue. Sometimes developers want to > > disable randomisation during development (quick'n'easy hacks get quicker > > and easier - e.g. if you watch an address within gdb), so having the > > capability for unprivileged users to disable randomisation on the fly is > > useful and Fedora certainly offers that, but from a support and > > bug-reporting POV it's not a problem. > > It's worth noting that some users have found the randomisation disable useful > for running things like xine/mplayer etc with win32 codecs that seem > to just segfault otherwise. These things seem to be incredibly fragile > to address space layout changes, which is a good argument for trying to > avoid these wierdo formats where possible in favour of free codecs.
actually that's because windows has a different initial stack alignment that wine compensates but I guess xine/mplayer don't. with p4's you get that anyway (and glibc and ..) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
