From owner-freebsd-security Wed Apr 22 15:20:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15370 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15337 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:20:06 GMT (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06214; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:19:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199804222219.RAA06214@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Static vs. dynamic linking (was Re: Using MD5 insted of DES ...) In-Reply-To: <199804222215.QAA06440@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Apr 22, 98 04:15:17 pm" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:19:52 -0500 (EST) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, woods@zeus.leitch.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > (I am assuming that disk space isn't much of a concern anymore, due to > > the amazingly low cost of disk space today.) > > Except on embedded systems/laptops. :( > I agree. Embedded systems have a more complex set of tradeoffs, where it is possible that memory profile is even more critical. Disk on laptops is often much more expensive. I suggest that our primary platform market is servers, and optimizing for those is useful for reviews (remember the 64MB fiasco???) If we all decide that it is generally good to make binaries shared, we need to make intelligent exceptions. I'll scream terribly loudly if we even passingly consider making a shell shared!!! Shells are almost never advatageously made shared. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message