On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:24:21PM -0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: > I don't want processes to die of fail to start because I am extracting > a tar file and I happen to be overwriting libc. It just does not > need to happen and it did not happen before.
This argument is plainly false. It was never safe to do, especially when a library changes in incompatible ways. /bin/ls depending on a new system call and the extract hasn't reached /lib/libc.so.12 yet? Boom. Joerg