On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 10:40, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 19:09, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > (glibc cannot easily be cross-compiled/bootstraped, > > this is the root of the problem, the glibc maintainer > > doesn't consider that as an important feature). > > Ever wonder why?
heheh ;) Well... thing is, it's _difficult_ but it can be done (bootstrapping) > When you do a native build, glibc itself is involved > in the production of glibc. So, via the glibc functions > for writing a file, it could recognize itself and add > some code. You'd never see this code in the source! > > All along, we thought the compiler might be backdoored. > Nobody ever thought to consider that the shared C library > might be, for example, changing the behavior of unmodified > PAM modules as they run. > > >:-) -- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
