2.25 freeze status

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Mon Jan 30 20:48:00 GMT 2017


On 01/30/2017 02:53 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 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 would argue it's more a question of error handling:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Style_and_Conventions#Error_Handling

I've updated IFUNC to include "Design Goals" where I outline what I think
should be happening:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/GNU_IFUNC

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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