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From: "Daniel Cegiełka" <daniel.cegielka@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: filesystem layout
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:58:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPLrYEQUdm32YLMU=vajy5Oj=KQ5Z4tVgexYiGSdEksQmuyJrQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50619711.5000102@gentoo.org>

2012/9/25 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>:
> On 09/25/2012 01:26 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 01:22:44PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>>
>>> Static linking could be dangerous from a security/maintainance
>>> standpoint, but that is me looking at the specific scenarios in which
>>> Gentoo shines.
>>
>>
>> This is a common myth.  lazy or ineffective system management is a
>> danger regardless of the linking type.
>
> Spending lots of time unbundling dependencies from packages so they
> could use the up-to-date shared version might bring you to have a bias.
>
> Any system management that force you to reinstall all your packages
> because zlib had a bug doesn't seem efficient.

dynamic linking itself can generate problems:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/ldd-arbitrary-code-execution/

daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-25 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-25  9:58 Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-25 10:53 ` Luca Barbato
2012-09-25 11:09   ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-25 11:22     ` Luca Barbato
2012-09-25 11:26       ` Kurt H Maier
2012-09-25 11:35         ` Luca Barbato
2012-09-25 11:58           ` Daniel Cegiełka [this message]
2012-09-25 12:31             ` Luca Barbato
2012-09-25 12:50           ` Kurt H Maier
2012-09-25 13:08             ` Luca Barbato
2012-09-25 13:09           ` Christian Neukirchen
2012-09-25 13:41             ` Luca Barbato
2012-09-25 13:51               ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-25 11:35     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-09-25 17:44   ` Rich Felker
2012-09-26  8:13     ` Daniel Bainton
2012-09-25 13:01 ` Christian Neukirchen
2012-09-25 13:42   ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-25 17:40 ` Nathan McSween

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