On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 08:15:19PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > I've never argumented against the goal that web browser or all network aware > services should be PIEs, after all, why would we (Ulrich Drepper and myself) > add the PIE support into the toolchain otherwise? > I'm just not convinced most of the unpriviledged programs should be PIEs. Thanks to e.g. e-mail about any program can be made to run untrusted data, e.g. PDF readers, office suites, image viewers, if you open an attachment of the respective type. Therefore it makes a sane default IMHO. It is also something to attract users that care about security very much to Fedora. Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
