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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
	phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:38:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sftd5hcv.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pmohjloh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:41:18 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> It apparently leads to crashes when Emacs is run under seccomp with a
>> recent glibc version.
>
> That can happen any day, if glibc folks make some change we didn't
> know about.  We cannot chase glibc development forever, we will never
> succeed catching up with them, certainly not in the long run.

But this is a known glibc issue, and crashes aren't fun, so I think the
seccomp change was warranted on the release branch.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-24 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <164286838577.8429.4021499312049157333@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20220122161946.44098C0DA30@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-01-24  0:08   ` emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073) Po Lu
2022-01-24 10:44     ` Philipp Stephani
2022-01-24 12:53       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-24 13:33         ` Po Lu
2022-01-24 13:41           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-24 14:38             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-01-24 15:00               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-24 16:47                 ` Robert Pluim
2022-01-24 17:19                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-25 20:12                     ` Philipp Stephani
2022-01-26  3:23                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-25 20:09                 ` Philipp Stephani
2022-01-25 21:40                   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-26  3:22                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-25  4:16       ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-25 12:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-25 20:13           ` Philipp Stephani
2022-01-26  3:24             ` Eli Zaretskii

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