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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness
Hi!

> > nor will they work if the sysadmin applies a security update and glibc
> > or another library changes one page in size. Or changes the stack rlimit
> > or .. or ..
>
> Now, i figured out, there is a certain reasonable safety gap which works
> for people, because the libraries depended on are well known.
>
> What happens with AS randomisation, is that the variance is simply too
> large. But what is more important, is that vendors do modifications
> which change the amount of randomisation, which means that potentially

Complain to vendors, not here.

Pavel
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