On Mon, 30 Jun 2025, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Jun 27 10:34, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jun 2025, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > > On Jun 26 13:31, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> > > > BTW, I noticed while editing mingw/Makefile.am, shouldn't cygload have
> > > > -Wl,--disable-high-entropy-va in LDFLAGS?
> > >
> > > Why?
> >
> > With high-entropy-va, it has been observed that the PEB, TEB and stack can
> > happen to overlap with the cygheap
> > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-May/256000.html
>
> Yeah, but HEVA simply breaks fork.  We don't have to test this, because
> it won't work and we don't do it.  You can set the PE flag, but than
> you're on your own.

Outside of fork, is cygheap able to "relocate" in case the memory it would
like to occupy is already used?

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