Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755245AbYBDOz3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:55:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751252AbYBDOzV (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:55:21 -0500 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:55053 "EHLO mail.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219AbYBDOzU (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:55:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:55:19 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Pavel Machek cc: Ingo Molnar , kernel list Subject: Re: brk randomization breaks columns In-Reply-To: <20080204132853.GA4630@elf.ucw.cz> Message-ID: References: <20080204122837.GA1647@elf.ucw.cz> <20080204130156.GA8730@elte.hu> <20080204132853.GA4630@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 652 Lines: 17 On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > Not sure this helps... If I only randomize _end_ of heap, it still > works. If I try to randomize beggining of heap, too, it will not even > start recent binaries :-(. I don't uderstand this, sorry. Ehen the mapping for the new process is being established during loading of the binary, the beginning and the end of the heap are the same ... -- Jiri Kosina -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/