Changeset b00c7d9

Timestamp:

10/18/2022 08:43:10 AM (18 months ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@…>

Branches:

11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, bdubbs/gcc13, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

6c17293

Parents:

0f9c02a

git-author:

Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@…> (10/18/2022 07:59:00 AM)

git-committer:

Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@…> (10/18/2022 08:43:10 AM)

Message:

Clarify why pie might be disabled

Just reading a textbook and LFS does not imply anything for compilation...

File:

• chapter01/whatsnew.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/whatsnew.xml

@@ -15 +15 @@
   and <parameter>--enable-default-ssp</parameter> are enabled for GCC.
   These techniques can mitigate some malicious attacks, but they do not provide
-  perfect security.  If you are reading LFS and a programming textbook,
+  perfect security.  Note that some textbooks assume these options are
+  disabled, so that if you run examples from such a textbook on an LFS system,
   you may need to disable PIE and SSP with the GCC options
-  <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>,
-  because some textbooks assume these options are disabled by default.</para>
+  <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>.</para>
 
   <para>Here is a list of the packages updated since the previous