X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A2BDD15.5080502@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:30:29 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090302 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 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> <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> <4A2BB5BB.4000402@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <416096c60906070749h26f1ad53i77543ce1ad0b961a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <416096c60906070749h26f1ad53i77543ce1ad0b961a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Andy Koppe wrote: >> 2) if the length of the actual pathname to the DLL is more than 2k wide >> characters (e.g. 4k bytes) then issue #1 is made increasingly likely, > > Surely anyone with paths like that deserves all the pain that comes > their way. 2k characters means 85 levels of "Documents and Settings". No one will ever need more than 640k of RAM (W. Gates). -- Chuck -- 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/