glibc 2.24 -- Release blockers

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Fri Jul 15 21:20:00 GMT 2016


On 07/15/2016 04:33 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
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> This means that new processes spawned by Emacs will have ASLR disable.

Yes, on second thought that's too drastic. The patch I just now 
installed into master (and sent via email to this list) doesn't do that. 
It disables ASLR only in temacs, not in ordinary Emacs invocations. 
(Enabling ASLR in ordinary Emacs broke the Emacs build on Fedora 23 
x86-64.) This is how Emacs has worked for many years; although you 
indicated that it might not work with bleeding-edge glibc in some 
situations, I don't understand why not, and would like to understand it 
better before changing this aspect of Emacs..



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