World of Warcraft (WoW) patch/more address space layout stuff

[Mike Hearn]

Well ever since me, Mike and Alexandre did the preloader work a few
years ago Wine itself has been execshield resistant, but the apps
themselves may not be (my guess is that this is why Microsoft have not
implemented it themselves ... that and they appear to be scared of
their own dynamic linker code).

We could add the syscall to switch off execshield and get a legacy VMA
layout to Wine itself, but Alexandre doesn't like it as the "ABI
personality" syscall basically has no well defined behaviour at all
and is used for all kinds of things, some of which may be useful. If
there was an execshield/VMA randomization specific way to disable
things on a per-process basis that'd be best. Otherwise I guess adding
the personality syscall to the WoW patch wouldn't hurt, as it's
already custom.

thanks -mike

On 5/2/06, n0dalus <n0dalus+wine at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/1/06, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
> >
> > Seems the WoW appdb page (apart from being a great example of what an
> > appdb entry should be like!) recommends users patch their Wine to run WoW
> > properly.
> >
>
> The patch mentioned particularly causes problems on systems like
> Fedora with randomized prelinking and exec-shield.
>
> On FC5 it took me some time to get the patched version to run and used:
> setarch i386 -L wine WoW.exe -opengl
>
> This apparently enables support for a legacy address layout. Does
> anyone know how this would allow it to run?
>
> Just curious,
> n0dalus.
>