X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A2BA669.3080404@cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:37:13 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ASLR sometimes stops working on Vista with 1.7? [was: Re: Cygwin 1.7 release (was ...)] References: <1244131746.30024.1318796263@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4A282063.9030804@users.sourceforge.net> <4A286B99.6020702@users.sourceforge.net> <20090605120936.GD23519@calimero.vinschen.de> <4A293237.2010102@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20090605163510.GF23519@calimero.vinschen.de> <4A296778.2080507@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20090605213012.GG23519@calimero.vinschen.de> <4A29B510.3020601@gmail.com> <20090606084924.GI23519@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090607082308.GA25832@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20090607082308.GA25832@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 6/7/2009 4:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I tested this change on XP 32 bit, 2K8 32 bit, W7 32 bit, and W7 64 bit, > by running `cygport automake1.11 compile' and a subsequent `make check', > which uses perl (and thus run-time loaded DLLs) a lot. I don't have the expertise to follow this thread in detail, but I have one question from the user's point of view. Are your patches strictly designed to solve problems in Vista and later, or might they have a (positive) impact under XP? I'm asking because I run XP and have occasionally had mysterious cygwin problems (for instance I wasn't able to build emacs 22.3 using cygport because the build kept hanging when many subprocesses were called). And I recall at least two other users (Steffen Sledz and Angelo Graziosi) who have reported problems that seemed to resemble BLODA but that couldn't be tracked down. I don't think they were running Vista, but I'm not sure. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/