Hi,
On 2022-08-26 11:09:41 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 06:29:07PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I accidentally did a lot of testing with DYNAMICBASE - I accidentally
> > mistranslated MSBuildProject.pm's <RandomizedBaseAddress>false</> to adding
> > /DYNAMICBASE in the meson port. Survived several hundred CI cycles and dozens
> > of local runs without observing any problems related to that.
> >
> > Which doesn't surprise me, given the way we reserve space in the new process.
>
> Still, we had problems with that in the past and I don't recall huge
> changes in the way we allocate shmem on WIN32.
It's really not great that 7f3e17b4827 disabled randomization without even a
comment as to why...
There actually seems to have been a lot of work in that area. See 617dc6d299c
/ bcbf2346d69 and as well as the retrying in 45e004fb4e39. Those weren't
prevented by us disabling ASLR.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
