On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:11:55PM -0500, micah wrote:
> 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.
hmm, well, then see:
http://list.linux-vserver.org/archive/vserver/msg12138.html
> >> > 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.
please do so if possible :)
TIA,
Herbert
> Micah
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