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Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of
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Philipp Stephani |
Subject: |
Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073) |
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Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:13:38 +0100 |
> Am 25.01.2022 um 13:08 schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
>> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:16:03 -0500
>> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, phst@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>>> That can happen any day, if glibc folks make some change we didn't
>>> know about. We cannot chase glibc development forever, we will never
>>> succeed catching up with them, certainly not in the long run.
>>
>> It's true that problems like this can happen any day. Not just with
>> Glibc but with lots of libraries that Emacs uses. But that has been
>> the case for many years. Are things getting worse in some way?
>
> If frequent changes to glibc cause Emacs to crash, that is bad.
These "crashes" are the whole point and purpose of seccomp filters. If an
Emacs process is sandboxed using a syscall filter, any unknown syscall has to
exit the process ("crash"), otherwise the sandbox would be insecure.
- Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073), (continued)
- Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/24
- Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073), Robert Pluim, 2022/01/24
- Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/24
- Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073), Philipp Stephani, 2022/01/25
- Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/25
- Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073), Philipp Stephani, 2022/01/25
- Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073), Stefan Monnier, 2022/01/25
- Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/25
Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073), Richard Stallman, 2022/01/24