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From: PaX Team <pageexec@××××××××.hu>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Paxmarkings on mail-client/thunderbird
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 18:02:26
Message-Id: 4FB3D1DA.7821.28536D27@pageexec.freemail.hu
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] Paxmarkings on mail-client/thunderbird by Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
1 On 16 May 2012 at 16:39, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
2
3 > at the moment the thunderbird-ebuild in the tree does a "pax mark m"
4 > on the binary.
5 > At least for me thunderbird works fine if I just disable jit.
6
7 there're a few packages that define a local 'jit' USE flag, i'd say
8 thunderbird/firefox/etc should use it as well to disable JIT related
9 options and avoid the pax-mark (not sure why pax-kernel came to mean
10 this, that's for kernel modules, not userland, and this JIT stuff is
11 useful for more kernels than just PaX based ones).
12
13 > What would be the workflow for reporting that. Should I file a bugreport?
14
15 this i don't know, but probably bugzilla ;)

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Re: [gentoo-hardened] Paxmarkings on mail-client/thunderbird "Anthony G. Basile" <basile@××××××××××××××.edu>