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From: "Toralf Förster" <toralf@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding the State of PaX in the tree
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:53:25
Message-Id: 66eafbbf-0198-0946-6437-02e0c5dd9bf9@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding the State of PaX in the tree by "Hanno Böck"
1 On 04/16/2018 11:14 AM, Hanno Böck wrote:
2 > There's also another question related to this: What's the future for
3 > Gentoo hardened?
4 > From what I can tell hardened consists of:
5 > * the things that try to make it compatible with grsec/pax
6 > (more or less obsolete).
7 > * things that are now in default profiles anyway (aslr, stack
8 > protector).
9 > * things that probably should be in default profiles (relro, now linker
10 > flags)
11 > * -fstack-check, which should eventually be replaced with
12 > -fstack-clash-protection (only available in future gcc's) and that
13 > should probably also go into default profiles.
14 > * Furthermore hardened disables some useful features due to their
15 > incompatibility with pax (e.g. sanitizers).
16
17 Which let me wonder, what I would lose today by a switch from
18 17.0-hardened + USE-flags to 17.0/desktop/plasma at my KDE desktop?
19
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21 Toralf
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