2.25 freeze status

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Jan 30 19:54:00 GMT 2017


On 01/30/2017 08:39 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> I don't think knowingly allow a program to segfault at random without any
> warning is appropriate.  Can't we turn the fatal error into a non-fatal warning?

We had extensive discussions previously, and the consensus at the time 
was that we do not want error detection for corrupt binaries in the 
dynamic linker.

I think this is the thread I remember:

   <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-07/msg00480.html>

There likely have been others.

Thanks,
Florian



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