Process map and fork problems
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Apr 20 14:52:00 GMT 2016
On Apr 20 14:29, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > It can't fragment, it can only grow. The Unix heap management doesn't
> > have the notion of multiple application heaps. There's only the sbrk
> > call to raise or shrink the size of the heap.
>
> Thanks for the confirmation. It looks like I am allowed to migrate the
> machines to a 3GB VM, thus circumventing the heap collision with DLL.
> Meanwhile I've looked at some problems that typically happen when loading
> emacs-x11 and it turns out that this loads a number of Windows DLL related
> to the display drivers and some others related to networking to low
> addresses. The only way I see to get around that is to try to enable ASLR,
> so what's the latest on doing that with Cygwin DLL? As far as I understand
> we should then rebase from 0x50000000 down since the range above is used by
> ASLR for any DLL that we still need top load to fixed addresses?
ASLR is toxic to fork...
Corinna
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