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Re: Design goals of the dynamic loader.
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:43:44 +0530
- Subject: Re: Design goals of the dynamic loader.
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:19:05AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> The latter two are code in the core loader that are more difficult
> to audit than stap-based probes? If we removed all trace an debug code
> from and moved to stap, we would have something that is even easier to audit?
Possibly, if stap with dyninst becomes stable enough (I had a few
difficulties using it a few months ago, I don't remember why) then we
can tout that as the replacement.
Siddhesh