On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 17:45, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:25:15PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
> >
> > It's also interesting to be able to use libsafe on a 'by program' basis.
>
> That is true, for sure. But the problem is that the flexibility of
> being able to not use libsafe when one wants is limiting one's
> ability to use it everytime one wants. That does not seem like a
> prudent trade-off.
>
> If you want to maintain the ability to not use it when you choose (I
> can't imagine why one would choose not to use it, but whatever...)
- Because of the 10% performance tradeoff ?
- Because we may experience false positive (thought I never seen one).
> and you want to build it right into glibc, you could use an environment
> variable (prior to program invocation) to either turn the feature on
> or off (whichever you want to default to -- I don't care which way it
> is).
Yes, that would do it.
Would you volunteer for sending a proposal to the GLIBC people ?
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Yoann Vandoorselaere
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