Robert Connolly wrote: > I heard about this in a uclibc, or something, irc channel about a year ago. > gcc/binutils -pie is only really usefull with randomization in the kernel (or > prelink), and the mainstream kernel intended to support it. However, PaX's > implementation, in the irc channel, was said to still be better. I'm not > positive, but I suspect the PaX kernel patch will disable the mainline > support. It's still good news though.. it will encourage more development in > this area.
Actually, I asked Jiri Kosina (who made most of work on this patch AFAIK) and he claimed it to be superior - even after leaving aside the fact that he authored it - to the original PaX patch (one of the things has been better randomization than the old patch IIRC). Best regards Petr Cerny -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page