From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] zsh-bin: statically-linked, hermetic, relocatable zsh
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 09:06:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f096755-d34e-e522-52b3-f480eae3b3bb@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMr_=ogXTYQKO_Y91NZf3dcRSsza3g6GGtMU+NvRwAJKpg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2020-03-28 7:02 a.m., Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> It means Zsh from zsh-bin doesn't require any files from outside of
> its installation directory to function. Perhaps "self-contained" would
> be a better word.
That has to be good. Self-contained and modular, no threads running
here and there.
> Zsh from zsh-bin cannot load user-defined compiled modules. There
> no way to guarantee that user-defined modules have been linked
> with the same libc as `zsh`, so it's unsafe to load them. This
> limitation likely cannot be removed.
What are the consequences of this for an ordinary user?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-28 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-26 14:20 Roman Perepelitsa
2020-03-28 0:23 ` Ray Andrews
2020-03-28 10:37 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-03-28 14:02 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-03-28 16:06 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2020-03-28 16:16 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-03-28 16:27 ` Ray Andrews
2020-04-05 15:46 ` Ray Andrews
2020-04-05 15:55 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-04-05 16:38 ` Ray Andrews
2020-04-05 16:45 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-04-05 18:47 ` Ray Andrews
2020-04-05 18:57 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-04-05 19:15 ` Ray Andrews
2020-04-05 19:19 ` Roman Perepelitsa
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