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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • Cc: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Static base spells
  • Date: 29 Nov 2002 14:25:41 -0500

Ahh. Good arguments. Would it be possible to modify the spells to also
create static versions and mv them to /opt/sorcery-safe/bin or
something?

On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 14:04, Andrew wrote:
> because if you have just one static copy of it, you use more memory,
> screw up the cacheing, and dont take advantage of shared libraries. the
> idea is to have a _backup_ of the real thing because normally 95% of
> the time we dont need static binaries, we really only need them for
> glibc. we are about having a system optimized by compiling from source,
> making all the core binaries static is a gigantic step backwards.
>
> I doubt many potential users are going to buy having 300-500k binaries
> lying around because we cant compile them dynamically.
>
> it doesnt hurt us one bit performance-wise to have a seperate set of
> safe static binaries lying around on disk, in fact if security is a
> major concern I would keep a set of them on an unmounted partition so
> if i get compromised and my libraries get messed with, i have a safe
> set of binaries on a read-only partition to fix things with, normally
> i wouldnt want to use them, and in fact id want to hide them. what will
> hurt every system is having static binaries because they each get an
> order of magnitude larger. disk space is cheap, memory isnt.
>
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 04:16:19AM -0500, Dufflebunk wrote:
> > What would be the advantage of having two copies of bzip over just one
> > static copy?
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 03:01, Andrew wrote:
> > > one alternative may be to have an alternative set of 'backup' or 'safe'
> > > utils. Sorcery could use those if a spell (like glibc) has the
> > > "USE_SAFE"
> > > variable set or something. Then you can have your nice dynamic
> > > executables
> > > the rest of the time.
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