On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:14:58AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 11/17/2010 11:42 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > How is any of that a reason not to patch glibc? > > Upside of patching: happy users. > Downside: nothing. Downside: slower memcpy on sse4.2 machines Downside: if we workaround the Adobe flash bug by reverting that change for say half a year to let Adobe fix it in the months timeframe, another possible misuses of memcpy in other proprietary closed software won't be detected over that period of time, so then we'll revert it for another buggy program and so on forever Downside: this isn't ever going to be acceptable to upstream If you want to workaround the bug somewhere, do it temporarily in nspluginwrapper, or the browser upon detecting loading of libflashplugin.so. Jakub -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
