From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, phst@google.com,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
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 17:47:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h79thyi0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ilu9ji0m.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:00:25 +0200")
>>>>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:00:25 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:38:24 +0100
>> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com,
>> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> 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.
Eli> It is very worrisome that a change in glibc can break Emacs like that.
Eli> I wonder what it means for the maintainability of Emacs in the long
Eli> run. I have a bad feeling about this.
We can always default the seccomp support to off.
Robert
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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
2022-01-24 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-24 16:47 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
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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