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

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 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: 2022-01-10T11:29:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 9:20 AM Bossart, Nathan <bossartn@amazon.com> wrote:
> FWIW I just found this patch very useful for testing some EXEC_BACKEND
> stuff on Linux.

Thanks for testing.  Tidied and pushed, to master only for now.



Commits

  1. Make EXEC_BACKEND more convenient on Linux and FreeBSD.

  2. Make EXEC_BACKEND more convenient on macOS.