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SubjectRe: FatELF patches...
* 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.


cu
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