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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reviving the Sandbox project
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 04:07:30
Message-Id: 1506053238.1115.0.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reviving the Sandbox project by Matt Turner
1 W dniu czw, 21.09.2017 o godzinie 15∶41 -0700, użytkownik Matt Turner
2 napisał:
3 > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
4 > > Given that sandbox is utterly broken by design, I don't really want to
5 > > put too much effort in trying to make it a little better. I'd rather put
6 > > the minimal effort required to make it not-much-worse.
7 >
8 > You said in your initial email that you weren't an expert in its
9 > internals, but here you say it's broken by design. Why do you think
10 > that?
11 >
12
13 Because it uses LD_PRELOAD which is a huge hack and which causes
14 guaranteed issues we can't really fix. All we can do is disable it for
15 emacs, for compiler-rt and I'm afraid this list will grow because
16 overriding random library functions is never a good idea.
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Reviving the Sandbox project Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>