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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:14:13 -0500
From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Initial work on post-1.0 roadmap
On 08/30/2013 12:03:57 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:46:30AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > This message is purely some notes for tracking and possible
> discussion
> > of things to do after musl 1.0 is released. I'm leaning towards (but
> > undecided) maintaining separate 1.0.x and 1.1.x branches after the
> 1.0
> > release, the 1.0.x being just bug-fixes and backports of
> non-invasive
> > changes, and real development taking place in the 1.1.x series. The
> > below items should probably then be arranged into a 1.1.x-series
> > roadmap based on how much seems reasonable to get done per release
> > (roughly, per month), and which features are in the highest demand.
>
> One more item (well, a big multi-part item):
>
> Security features -- RELRO processing in the dynamic linker, a
> replacement for _FORTIFY_SOURCE (as a layer on top of libc's headers
> rather than part of libc's headers), making it possible to build libc
> itself with stack-protector, possibly nonstandard interfaces needed
> for using kernel security features well, adapting malloc's footer
> bookkeeping to make it difficult to preserve footer when performing
> buffer overflows, ...
This isn't on the wiki...?
Rob
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