[PATCH] NEWS: Move enable_secure_tunable from 2.39 to 2.40.

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@gotplt.org
Fri Mar 1 15:18:35 GMT 2024


On 2024-02-29 16:46, Joe Simmons-Talbott wrote:
> From: Joe Talbott <joetalbott@gmail.com>
> 
> ---

This is a trivial fix, please push.

Thanks,
Sid


>   NEWS | 10 +++++-----
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 19f4e93ea3..da4b2223e9 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ Major new features:
>     by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
>     -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
>   
> +* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, used to run a program
> +  as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
> +  more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
> +  be a security feature.
> +
>   Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
>   
>     [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
> @@ -103,11 +108,6 @@ Major new features:
>     exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
>     log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
>   
> -* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, used to run a program
> -  as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
> -  more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
> -  be a security feature.
> -
>   Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
>   
>   * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in


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