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diff -u -r1.31 -r1.32
--- www/61.html 2017/03/11 05:43:44 1.31
+++ www/61.html 2017/03/11 06:17:15 1.32
@@ -245,9 +245,10 @@
Security improvements:
- Enforcement of userland W^X on OCTEON Plus and later.
-
- All shared libraries and all dynamic and static-PIE executables use
+
- All shared libraries, all dynamic and static-PIE executables, and
+ ld.so(1) itself use
the RELRO ("read-only after relocation") design such that
- more of the initial data can be protected as read-only.
+ more of the initial data is protected as read-only.
- The size of user virtual address space has been increased
from 2GB to 1TB on mips64.
- PIE and -static -pie on arm (XXX someone please explain this better).
@@ -274,6 +275,9 @@
- printf(3) family
of formatting functions now report to syslog when the %s
format is used with a NULL pointer.
+
- The performance and concurrency of the
+ malloc(3) family
+ in multi-threaded processes has been improved.
- ...
@@ -322,6 +326,9 @@
An NMI sends the amd64 kernel into
ddb(4)
more reliably.
+ ld.so(1) now
+ supports the DT_PREINITARRAY, DT_INITARRAY, DT_FINIARRAY, DT_FLAGS,
+ and DT_RUNPATH dynamic tags.
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