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Re: ASLR breaks cygwin
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru>
- To: Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 20:40:49 +0400
- Subject: Re: ASLR breaks cygwin
- References: <51B0B1F2 dot 4090402 at gmail dot com>
- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Rosen Penev!
> Microsoft has a utility called EMET which allows ASLR to be forced on
> for each and every process(AlwaysOn) . Unfortunately, this breaks
> cygwin.
-unfortunately
+unsurprisingly
This is to be expected, due to the very definition of Cygwin.
> I just made a fresh installation of cygwin64(regular version has
> the same problem) and got this at the end:
> Package: base-cygwin
> 000-cygwin-post-install.sh exit code 254
> Package: coreutils
> coreutils.sh exit code 254
> Package: bash
> bash.sh exit code 254
> Package: base-files
> base-files-profile.sh exit code 254
> base-files-mketc.sh exit code 254
> Package: libsasl2_3
> libsasl2_3.sh exit code 254
> Package: man
> man.sh exit code 254
> Opening the cygwin terminal results in:
> Failed to fork child process: Resource temporarily unavailable.
> DLL rebasing may be required. See 'rebaseall --help'.
> All of this is on Windows 8 64-bit but I remember it also being an issue
> with Windows 7. I have not tested 32-bit versions of Windows.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 06.06.2013, <20:39>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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