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

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
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: 2023-02-02T01:06:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 03:06:16PM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> +1, go for it.  It shouldn't affect Unix build releases, and on
> Windows the function does nothing.

Thanks for confirming.  I am wondering what these animals may complain
about next, but based on some tests on this buildfarm host with the
same configuration, things are looking OK once this stuff is applied
on 11~14.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Make EXEC_BACKEND more convenient on Linux and FreeBSD.

  2. Make EXEC_BACKEND more convenient on macOS.