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

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?
Date: 2023-02-01 02:06:16
Message-ID: CA+hUKGK1d8Qrt2W34FbDCx5-xV63gdv4AHuLOMHVg_WEfSKt-A@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 2:58 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)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.

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