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A backdoor in xz

A backdoor in xz

Posted Mar 30, 2024 7:32 UTC (Sat) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: A backdoor in xz by epa
Parent article: A backdoor in xz

>because it links as a C library and you get the transitive dependencies of everything

So, statically link with LTO?

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A backdoor in xz

Posted Mar 31, 2024 14:23 UTC (Sun) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

No, static linking isn't needed. Just split the large libsystemd into smaller libraries where each smaller library contains a set of closely-related APIs and minimal other dependencies. There's no reason to pull code in to do log compression if all you need is code for the sd_notify protocol.


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