In gmane.linux.vserver, you wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 02:29:38PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote:
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>> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:33:12AM +0100, Joel Soete wrote:
>> >>On toh for my private build from upstream src (on going to build latest
>> >>0.30.210), I disabled use of dietlibc (not yet available for hppa at this
>> >>time) and all seems to works fine.
>> >
>> >
>> > really depends on the dietlibc, but I'd assume it
>> > is _still_ broken on HPPA, nevertheless the glibc
>> > is _not_ a good alternative, although it _might_
>> > work for simple things.
>>
>> I guess we can find out when Joel sends results of tests?
>
> possible, well, testme and testfs will not
> detect the insecurities introduced by glibc
Ah, I meant we can find out if dietlibc is broken on HPPA or not. I
did not mean we can find out if glibc insecurities still exist.
>> > PS: I hope that dietlibc on hppa will be fixed soon.
>>
>> Have the issues on HPPA been brought to the dietlibc developers?
>
> yes, but AFAICT, they were ignored ...
I tried to google around for references to this to see if I could help
push these up, but didn't find anything. Sometimes all it takes is a
ping to the right place to get people to realise that they overlooked
something.
Micah
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Received on Fri Feb 3 22:12:13 2006