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Why is grsecurity not merged upstream?
by asomiv 15y ago
Why is grsecurity not merged upstream?
- static_cast 15y agoI don't know. I'm just on the end-user side. Just a guess from my (pretty limited) understanding of the issue: The grsecurity[1] patch includes PaX[2] that can break a lot of software. e.g. Java and X11 and there are sometimes other unwanted side effects as well. And I've found a blog post stating that the author does not want to maintain a upstream patch[3]. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grsecurity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grsecurity 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaX 3: http://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1535 http://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1535
- nwmcsween 15y agoEgos and the childish behaviour of half the kernel developers involved in Linux, this includes Spender and co at grsec