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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/9] dumb-init: new package
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 23:10:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180303221030.GA16780@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180301230214.lkzpfyad6m7p43jq@tarshish>

Baruch, All,

On 2018-03-02 01:02 +0200, Baruch Siach spake thusly:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 11:23:42PM +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On 2018-03-01 23:04 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> > > On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:21:53 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > > >  >> dumb-init doesn't depend on any libraries, so the only issue is static
> > > >  >> linking with glibc, right?  
> > 
> > One can do a static link with glibc, as long as one does not do any name
> > resolution (username, hostname, etc...). But basically, static linking
> > with glibc has long been frowned upon...
> 
> This has changed a little recently. Toolchain support is still limited though. 
> glibc NEWS for 2.27 says:
> 
> * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
>   PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL).  These static PIE
>   executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
>   and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
>   memory and performance.  When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
>   the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
>   executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'.  This feature is currently
>   supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
>   aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.

Ah, interesting, thanks! :-)

I always wondered why pie and static were mutually exclusive...
Afterall, semantically they mean two orthogonal things.

Incidentally, I also always wondered why code was not
position-indpendent by default...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-03 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-01  7:20 [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 0/9] upgrade docker-engine and associated components Christian Stewart
2018-03-01  7:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/9] tini: new package Christian Stewart
2018-03-01  7:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/9] dumb-init: " Christian Stewart
2018-03-01  9:02   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-01 15:51     ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-03-01 16:08       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-01 17:21         ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-03-01 22:04           ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-01 22:23             ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-03-01 23:02               ` Baruch Siach
2018-03-03 22:10                 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2018-03-01 22:32             ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-03-01 17:58     ` Christian Stewart
2018-03-01  7:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 3/9] docker-engine: add support for init processes Christian Stewart
2018-03-01  7:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 4/9] docker-engine: select static for tini and dumb-init Christian Stewart
2018-03-01  8:59   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-01 15:52     ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-03-01 17:59     ` Christian Stewart
2018-03-01  7:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 5/9] docker-proxy: new package Christian Stewart
2018-03-30 21:30   ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-03-01  7:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 6/9] docker-engine: add dependency on docker-proxy Christian Stewart
2018-03-30 21:30   ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-03-01  7:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 7/9] runc: bump to 9f9c96235cc Christian Stewart
2018-03-01  7:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 8/9] docker-containerd: bump to v1.0.2 Christian Stewart
2018-03-01  7:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 9/9] docker-engine: bump to v18.03.0-ce-rc1 Christian Stewart
2018-03-01 10:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 0/9] upgrade docker-engine and associated components Peter Korsgaard
2018-03-01 17:54   ` Christian Stewart
2018-03-01 18:15     ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-03-01 19:06       ` Christian Stewart

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