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From: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding the State of PaX in the tree
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:12:07
Message-Id: 92a08276-d252-b028-8218-fbf8cb81b4a2@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding the State of PaX in the tree by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 2018-04-16 05:12 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 4/16/18 4:05 AM, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:
3 >> * Anthony G. Basile schrieb am 16.04.18 um 02:04 Uhr:
4 >>> Hi everyone,
5 >>
6 >> Hi Anthony,
7 >>
8 >> I vote for keeping PaX Support as I am still using it and might be doing
9 >> so in the future.
10 >>
11 >> Thanks ;)
12 >> -Marc
13 >>
14 >
15 > How are you able to test? Do you have your hands on the latest grsec
16 > patches or are you using an old kernel. Old at this point means one
17 > year old.
18 >
19
20 I am able to test, we have access to the latest grsecurity kernels at my
21 employer, and we would very much prefer to keep the PaX markings around.
22
23 We (I work with several Gentoo developers) are actively testing all the
24 packages we use internally with newer kernels, and fixing anything that
25 breaks.