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Re: Traceroute exploit + story (fwd)
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+ at andrew dot cmu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Traceroute exploit + story (fwd)
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 05 Oct 2000 16:16:18 -0700
- Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>, chris at scary dot beasts dot org, security-audit at ferret dot lmh dot ox dot ac dot uk, libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010051953300.10542-100000@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk><20001005163626.A9438@drow.them.org><200010052058.NAA02042@geoffk.org><20001005190345.A9951@drow.them.org>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> I can't see any possible way, no. But I like the fact that in the
> other declaration of __libc_enable_secure it defaults to 1 in case the
> test somehow gets skipped; it's more failsafe. Any reason not to
> change this similarly?
Yes. .bss data is cheaper then .data.
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