Re: Pondering per-process vsyscall disablement

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/30/2014 01:00 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> Do the flags go in the ELF loader or in the executable we're running?
> Or both (and, if both, do we and them or or them)?
> 
> I think the interpreter makes a little more sense in general: for the
> most part, use of vsyscalls is a property of the runtime environment,
> not of the program being run.  But maybe this is naive.
> 

They go into each object which becomes part of the running program, i.e.
executable, dynamic libraries, and dynamic linker.

	-hpa


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