[Gcl-devel] Re: Axiom sources for Debian release with 2.6.7

[Juho Snellman]

<address@hidden> wrote:
> Great!  But presumably this needs doing as root.  The earlier
> randomized sbrk had a similar system-wide disabling shell command
> using the /proc filesystem if I recall.  But there was also a
> per-process user-level syscall, which was used in the 'setarch'
> utility and incoporated directly into GCL's main routine, that
> accomplished the same thing.  It would be great if we could follow
> suit here as well.  The earlier call was a 'personality set'.  Do you
> have any idea of an analogous syscall here?

You need to set the ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE personality flag (0x40000) and
re-execute, like suggested in the thread "gcl-2.6.7 and FC4" a couple
of weeks ago.

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Juho Snellman