avoid wasting OS flag bits. In the future we'll probably use fileassoc to
achieve this (once there is a way to make fileassoc persistent) or in the
shorter term libelf, so that we can add and remove the note on demand instead
of burning bits on each binary. Of course since this is a tool, this means
that we'll need to think about how to handle libelf...
FORTIFY_SOURCE feature of libssp, thus checking the size of arguments to
various string and memory copy and set functions (as well as a few system
calls and other miscellany) where known at function entry. RedHat has
evidently built all "core system packages" with this option for some time.
This option should be used at the top of Makefiles (or Makefile.inc where
this is used for subdirectories) but after any setting of LIB.
This is only useful for userland code, and cannot be used in libc or in
any code which includes the libc internals, because it overrides certain
libc functions with macros. Some effort has been made to make USE_FORT=yes
work correctly for a full-system build by having the bsd.sys.mk logic
disable the feature where it should not be used (libc, libssp iteself,
the kernel) but no attempt has been made to build the entire system with
USE_FORT and doing so will doubtless expose numerous bugs and misfeatures.
Adjust the system build so that all programs and libraries that are setuid,
directly handle network data (including serial comm data), perform
authentication, or appear likely to have (or have a history of having)
data-driven bugs (e.g. file(1)) are built with USE_FORT=yes by default,
with the exception of libc, which cannot use USE_FORT and thus uses
only USE_SSP by default. Tested on i386 with no ill results; USE_FORT=no
per-directory or in a system build will disable if desired.
Some statistics:
base + COMBRELOC
$ time (for i in `seq 100`;do noatun --help>/dev/null;done)
(; for i in `seq 100`; do; noatun --help > /dev/null; done; ) 148.64s
user 4.82s system 99% cpu 2:33.93 total
base + DF caching:
$ time (for i in `seq 100`;do noatun --help>/dev/null;done)
(; for i in `seq 100`; do; noatun --help > /dev/null; done; ) 151.15s
user 5.53s system 99% cpu 2:37.23 total
base:
$ time (for i in `seq 100`;do noatun --help>/dev/null;done)
(; for i in `seq 100`; do; noatun --help > /dev/null; done; ) 492.36s user
5.34s system 99% cpu 8:19.17 total
bin/ls sources to libutil:
o Bump libutil minor version number
o Fix uses to include <util.h> to pick up the function definitions
o Fix most uses of flags_to_string() to release the now-malloc()ed result
for set{u,g}id binaries, so that in case they are playing with set{u,g}id
and exec'ing other binaries they don't get affected by the
LD_{PRELOAD,DEBUG,LIBRARY_PATH} environment setup. We leave LD_BIND_NOW alone.
There are no binaries affected in the base system.
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