Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:25:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), woods@zeus.leitch.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Static vs. dynamic linking (was Re: Using MD5 insted of DES ...) Message-ID: <199804222225.PAA01154@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:19:52 CDT." <199804222219.RAA06214@dyson.iquest.net>
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> 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. I think this basically says that we need to make shared executables faster. The nuisance component with static binaries is rather high. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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