From owner-freebsd-security Wed Apr 22 13:56:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22183 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:56:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gateman.zeus.leitch.com (gateman.zeus.leitch.com [204.187.61.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22126 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:56:22 GMT (envelope-from woods@tap.zeus.leitch.com) Received: from zeus.leitch.com (tap.zeus.leitch.com [204.187.61.10]) by gateman.zeus.leitch.com (8.8.5/8.7.3/1.0) with ESMTP id QAA02282 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:56:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from brain.zeus.leitch.com (brain.zeus.leitch.com [204.187.61.32]) by zeus.leitch.com (8.7.5/8.7.3/1.0) with ESMTP id QAA14696 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:56:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from woods@localhost) by brain.zeus.leitch.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02964; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:56:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from woods@tap.zeus.leitch.com) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:56:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199804222056.QAA02964@brain.zeus.leitch.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Static vs. dynamic linking (was Re: Using MD5 insted of DES ...) In-Reply-To: Mark Murray's message of "Wed, April 22, 1998 22:24:24 +0200" regarding "Re: Static vs. dynamic linking (was Re: Using MD5 insted of DES ...) " id <199804222024.WAA00701@greenpeace.grondar.za> References: <199804222024.WAA00701@greenpeace.grondar.za> X-Mailer: VM 6.45 under Emacs 20.2.1 Reply-To: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) Organization: Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk [ On Wed, April 22, 1998 at 22:24:24 (+0200), Mark Murray wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Static vs. dynamic linking (was Re: Using MD5 insted of DES ...) > > Is my summary OK? If you're looking for a consensus, then no. ;-) (in certain circumstances I find any dynamic loading of code, be it through shared libraries, or run-time loading of .o's, or whatever, to be highly undesirable, and I think that's effectively what several other people have concluded too) -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP Planix, Inc. ; Secrets of the Weird To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message