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Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

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From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-02-01T02:06:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 2:58 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 08:37:29PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > That's aged long enough now that it seems like a pretty safe
> > thing to do.
>
> Thanks.  I'll wait for a few days before doing something for my
> buildfarm stuff, in case somebody thinks this is a bad idea..

+1, go for it.  It shouldn't affect Unix build releases, and on
Windows the function does nothing.

Commits

  1. Make EXEC_BACKEND more convenient on Linux and FreeBSD.

  2. Make EXEC_BACKEND more convenient on macOS.