From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preview: portable dumper Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:33:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <047a67ec-9e29-7e4e-0fb0-24c3e59b5886@dancol.org> <9b6a0571-b2ae-a5dd-a643-3595e8f71cd6@cs.ucla.edu> <591d9c69-5857-c400-a3e4-edc972d8146d@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480512889 6792 195.159.176.226 (30 Nov 2016 13:34:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:34:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 30 14:34:45 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cC525-00014T-Dm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:34:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cC529-0006GD-8d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:34:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59376) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cC51J-0006F7-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:33:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cC51D-0004wh-Ne for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:33:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=40337 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cC51D-0004wS-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:33:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cC517-0000vQ-IY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:33:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:C4K1zmpzmORmXRbzcSzYr+IpF7k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209791 Archived-At: >> How about this? We'll let the PIC-ness of the Emacs >> executable (which we know at build time) control whether we try to map >> the dump at its preferred load address. If a user is running non-PIC, >> he's already vulnerable. > Yes, that sounds fine, thanks. I for one would prefer "measurably faster" over "hypothetically ever so slightly less insecure". Stefan