Re: [gentoo-hardened] XATTR_PAX migration

[Tóth Attila]

2013.Szeptember 10.(K) 13:50 időpontban Anthony G. Basile ezt írta:
> On 09/09/2013 06:06 PM, Alex Efros wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:26:57PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>>> install is being wrapped by install.py.  As a result every instance of
>>> install mean invoking the python interpreter.  With lots and lots of
>>> installs, this adds up to being very slow.
>>
>> Why not just add a patch for `install`? Even if you will just exec
>> `paxctl-ng` at end of `install` it still will be much faster.
>>
>
> We decided that changing the default behavior of install was not a good
> idea.  See [1]
>
> There are places where we have to do pax markings before install. We
> could do them twice, that was the other option.  When I wrote the python
> wrapper, I had no idea it was going to be this slow.
>
> Ref
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470660
>
> --
> Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
> Chair of Information Technology
> D'Youville College
> Buffalo, NY 14201
> [phone]
>

Dear blueness: what is the future perspective?

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