Re: AT_ENTROPY1 and AT_ENTROPY2 values for include/linux/auxvec.h

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From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 6:06 pm

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 01:40 +0200, Alexander Gabert wrote:


while I'm not per se against adding such aux vectors, I think it's a bad
mistake to make them a config option (and 2 options at that!!)

Stack protector is very widely deployed today
(Fedora,RHEL,SLES,OpenSUSE,Gentoo etc), so I can sure see the point of
helping it a bit... but I'd like to see a little more data on how the
current approach isn't sufficient.


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AT_ENTROPY1 and AT_ENTROPY2 values for include/linux/auxvec.h, Alexander Gabert, (Sun Jun 17, 4:40 pm)
Re: AT_ENTROPY1 and AT_ENTROPY2 values for include/linux/a ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Sun Jun 17, 6:06 pm)
[PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, kernel ..., Alexander Gabert, (Wed Jun 20, 8:34 am)
Re: [PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, ker ..., Alexander Gabert, (Sun Jun 24, 10:45 am)