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Re: libffi & fork
On 04/30/2012 08:16 PM, Anthony Green wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Andrew - it would be nice if we could upgrade RHEL's libffi to a
>>> non-ABI breaking 3.0.10. If, however, it makes more sense to
>>> cherry-pick patches since 3.0.5, I can see some nice ones from mjw and
>>> jakub back in 2010, and there are likely more. If you think we should
>>> open an RFE I can propose some specific patches for consideration.
>>> There may only be 4 or 5 and they are all pretty obvious.
>>
>> I think we should do that.
>
> Hmm.. check out this bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772657
>
> If our selinux state detection code really is this fragile, maybe we
> should link against libselinux and use is_selinux_enabled() as
> suggested in comment 4.
Would it not make far more sense simply to try to map the region
and fall back if that fails?
Andrew.