On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:43:07 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: > because nobody *explained* the issue
Well, from 30,000 feet - PIE executables require a different style of coding with different kinds of relocations. If there is asm code, and any of it uses incompatible relocations (which is very likely), then it won't work in a PIE executable. (Though it seems surprising to me that any assembly would be in the main program and not already in a shared library, where it would already need to be position independent). Which doesn't mean the OS isn't broken :-). Restricting executables to PIE only is one of those idiot fantasy ideas that people think make things "more secure", but actually just make things more inconvenient. Security guys won't be satisfied till everything is an inert brick (and the brick is locked up in a vault). _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user
