[Leaplist] major bug found in Linux to give root access tountrusted users...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Yeah, several packages on several Debian and Fedora-based distros do
that.

In all honesty, I just run DOSBox for most titles.  If it requires Windows 98,
I have my dedicated, P3-933MHz/512MiB system without a network card.
If it wants XP/Vista, I only run it if it runs under Cedega or on the Vista dual-
boot of my current Gateway P-7811FX notebook.

And I haven't started Cedega in over 18 months, so I don't know if it would
break apps.



----- Original Message ----
From: Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com>

And fyi, it appears the wine deb packages explicitly install a sysctl file that 
ensures mmap_min_addr is 0 at boot.

Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.d/wine.sysctl.conf)... 

# Wine needs to access the bottom 64k of memory in order to launch
# 16 bit programs.
vm.mmap_min_addr = 0

Probably safe to change it > 0 if you don't use 16-bit apps, then.

Now, to see if Sierra Pharoh from 1999 runs!

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