Re: [PATCH] ldd: Do not recommend binutils as the safer option

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On 16 Oct 2023 02:19, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> The binutils security policy[1] states that diagnostic tools should not
> be expected to be safe without sandboxing, so it doesn't make sense to
> recommend it as the alternative to ldd, especially since it is not a
> drop-in replacement.  Recommend sandboxing instead, since that is in
> fact the safest known way at the moment to deal with untrusted binaries.

fwiw, this is one reason why i wrote `lddtree` (although the primary reason
was cross-compiling and separate-root dirs).  it's part of the pax-utils
project that's available in most distros now.
-mike

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