ASLR sometimes stops working on Vista with 1.7? [was: Re: Cygwin 1.7 release (was ...)]

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun  7 07:37, Ken Brown wrote:
> 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?

They are designed to fix a generic problem introduced in 1.7 due to the
long pathname support, not a Vista-only problem.  It was a coincidence
that the guys involved in the discussion of that issue were running
Vista/W7.

The only difference of Vista/W7 to earlier system is the additional ASLR
feature which could help to plaster over the issue in a non-reproducible
way.  */me ducks to escape Chucks slap*


Corinna

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