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From: Natanael Copa <mlists@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] uclibc "emerge sync" segfaults
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 21:42:51
Message-Id: 410EB557.7020408@tanael.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] uclibc "emerge sync" segfaults by Ned Ludd
1 Ned Ludd wrote:
2
3 >On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 16:49, Natanael Copa wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>Ned Ludd wrote:
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>
10 >>>Yeah nasty bug here ;/
11 >>>
12 >>>You can however do an emerge-webrsync (It's just slow as dirt)
13 >>>
14 >>>
15 >>>
16 >>>
17 >>>>I guess there is a bug in libresolv in uclibc
18 >>>>
19 >>>>
20 >>>>
21 >>>>
22 >>Makes me wonder if uclibc is good enough for production firewalls etc
23 >>when it comes to security? I am just starting to look at uclibc.
24 >>
25 >>
26 >
27 >If your using x86:uclibc there are already some security options
28 >available to you.
29 >
30 >
31
32 Thanks for the details, it did explain some terms I just heard about before.
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34 We are using grsec already and we have been talking about ssp. However,
35 as you said yourself, it gives some overhead and one of the main reasons
36 to use uclib has to do with size.
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38 My question is, will uclibc do without all this fancy stuff or does it
39 depend on it to be useable?
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43 Natanael Copa
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Re: [gentoo-embedded] uclibc "emerge sync" segfaults Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>