Am 29.04.2018 um 17:58 schrieb Paul B Mahol: > On 4/29/18, Reindl Harald <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Am 29.04.2018 um 16:31 schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos: >>>> --enable-pic >>> >>> Why is this needed? >>> (I see it often: If it has an effect, it makes the binary slower, so >>> I wonder why people add it.) >> >> because other than you people care about security and not only >> performance - learn about system hardening - and yes given the tons of >> errors and voodoo in *all* multimedia codecs it's recommended > > Which errors and voodoo? > Can you point them? please don't play fool - thank you!
you have hunrdets of critical bugs in *every* multimedia library over the past years and hardening binaries is for make *currently unknown* vulernabilities more difficult to trigger if one don't have the slightest clue about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_hardening he better should not recommend remove options like "--enable-pic" which should be *default* until someone decides sacrifice security by performance _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
