From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:01:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <569CDB81.6040600@redhat.com> <569D6B1E.6020002@emvision.com> <569D8E0B.1010603@yandex.ru> <569D9539.5040007@emvision.com> <834me9d090.fsf@gnu.org> <569F3A84.5070101@porkrind.org> <83wpr4a905.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453345309 29744 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2016 03:01:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 03:01:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ali_gnu2@emvision.com, david@porkrind.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 21 04:01:39 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aM5VD-00075P-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 04:01:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45833 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aM5V9-0000TQ-Gi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:01:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aM5V5-0000Qt-Gh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:01:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aM5V4-0005v1-Kz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:01:31 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aM5Ur-0005n3-Vy; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:01:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aM5Ur-0005G5-0S; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:01:17 -0500 In-reply-to: <83wpr4a905.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:35:38 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198482 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > That leads to an interesting idea—what if one were to smash all the .elc > > files that temacs loads as part of the undump process and then put them > > into the temacs object, maybe by relinking them in as a giant array > > (portable), or by shoving them into their own section with objcopy (not > > really portable)? > You have described what unexec does, in some of its incarnations. We > just put those *.elc files into a separate executable, called 'emacs', > and not in 'temacs'. He described a way to implement something equivalent to unexec, but I don't think that's how our unexec works now. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.