On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:43:03PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > - something to do with aux vector headers
>
> the primary goal is to pass a random value to userspace at process
> start; this to save glibc from having to open /dev/urandom on ever
> program start (which it does now for all apps compiled with
> -fstack-protector, which in various distros is "everything").
There are 2 ways to compile -fstack-protector supporting glibc actually,
only one opens /dev/urandom on every program initialization, the other
computes the stack guard from some bits of the stack address (so indirectly
depends on get_random_int() in stack randomization).
Nevertheless, having one random long (32-bit for 32-bit arches, 64-bit
otherwise) in aux vector would be useful.
Jakub
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