[Bug 20578] Debian/Ubuntu packages do not follow proper format for /etc/sysctl.d

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20578





--- Comment #2 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2009-11-04 16:40:01 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Package maintainer should probably at minimum rename the file, if not find a
> > way to encourage users to make this security-lowering decision on their own
> > rather than making it the default. (Maybe a warning message from wine when
> > vm.mmap_min_addr is not zero?)
> 
> Wine doesn't work if it not zero.
> 
> See also:
> * http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem
> * Bug 12516 (err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem error report on every run of Wine)
> * Bug 19732 (Security: use CAP_SYS_RAWIO during start up to map the memory
> below mmap_min_addr instead of permanently lowering it at install time)

Wine itself still works, but any program using DOS calls will fail and you'll
get that scary warning.

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