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| From: | Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bleeding edge hardened-sources: move PaX markings from ELF to Extended Attributes | ||
| Date: | Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:59:06 | ||
| Message-Id: | 201112072058.16025.vapier@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] Re: Bleeding edge hardened-sources: move PaX markings from ELF to Extended Attributes by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> | ||
| 1 | On Wednesday 07 December 2011 20:45:28 Duncan wrote: |
| 2 | > (1) Tail-packing. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ext4 will be doing something similar: |
| 5 | http://lwn.net/Articles/469805/ |
| 6 | |
| 7 | although i don't find the overhead w/out tail packing to be a deal breaker |
| 8 | |
| 9 | > (3) The kernel folks don't screw with it as much as they do ext*. |
| 10 | > Reference the infamous ext3 data=writeback period during which reiserfs |
| 11 | > stayed safely data=ordered. I know people on ext3 that were wondering |
| 12 | > why they were losing data during that period, until I explained the |
| 13 | > situation and they switched to explicit data=ordered. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | i have no sympathy for broken userspace code |
| 16 | -mike |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bleeding edge hardened-sources: move PaX markings from ELF to Extended Attributes | Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> |
| [gentoo-dev] Re: Bleeding edge hardened-sources: move PaX markings from ELF to Extended Attributes | Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> |