Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH prototype] [0/8] Predictive bitmaps for ELF executables | | From | Nicholas Miell <> | | Date | Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:16:31 -0700 | |
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:10 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Why not stick the bitmap in an xattr?
>
> xattrs are too small for potentially large binaries
*sigh* this is probably true
> and a mess to manage (a lot of tools don't know about them)
At this point in time, all tools that don't support xattrs are
defective, but this is still probably true.
I just have an instinctive aversion towards the kernel mucking around in
ELF objects -- for one thing, you're going to have to blacklist
cryptographically signed binaries.
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Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
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