Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:00:50 +0100 | From | Enrico Weigelt <> | Subject | Re: FatELF patches... |
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* Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at> wrote:
> > The root of evil are plugins - even worse: binary-only plugins. > > > > Let's just take browsers: is there any damn good reason for not putting > > those things into their own process (9P provides a fine IPC for that), > > besides stupidity and lazyness of certain devs (yes, this explicitly > > includes mozilla guys) ? > Or implement running 32bit plugins from a 64bit browser.
And land in an nightmare: you have to create an kind of in-process jail, so all referenced 32bit lib references get properly emulated.
Better kickoff the whole idea of plugins at all.
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