Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Why was it moved to a different library? Security. Moving unneeded code out of libc.so makes it unavailable to hackers. The malloc-related code in glibc is a common target for such things.
Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Why was it moved to a different library? Security. Moving unneeded code out of libc.so makes it unavailable to hackers. The malloc-related code in glibc is a common target for such things.
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