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How does having strong support for dynamic linking prevent someone from copypasting insecure code or just linking statically with your .so? Dynamic linking just
by dilyevsky 5y ago
How does having strong support for dynamic linking prevent someone from copypasting insecure code or just linking statically with your .so? Dynamic linking just makes deployment and compatibility a pain for some very dubious advantages
- gspr 5y ago> How does having strong support for dynamic linking prevent someone from copypasting insecure code or just linking statically with your .so? It doesn't. But it gives people a real alternative to doing what you describe! And only when a real alternative to something bad exists, one can reasonably demand that people stop doing the bad thing (Debian does, so does Fedora and a few other distros I believe).