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Re: ar "zero" flag
On 6-Aug-08, at 5:25 PM, Jason Thorpe wrote:
As a short-term step, I don't object to the "zeroize" flag in
principle. However, issues like this as well as issues with
threads, full-feature functionality, backwards-compatibility, etc.
have led me to conclude that it's time to deprecate static linking
on our system[1].
That'd be a sad day for everyone, but especially those interested in
security, simplicity, elegance, software hygiene, predictability,
performance, and, most of all, embedded systems.
Sigh.
What a horridly binary vendor centric viewpoint you have these days
Jason.
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Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc.
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