On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 15:11:42 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
Not to mention that not all linux distributions work this way.
Even not all the debian -> unbntu ones (such as Mint), and
certainly not the ones based on red hat.
The topic was fairly disputed for RH, but Jakub Jelinek is also
the author of prelink, and seems a bit biased. There are also IRC
logs available.
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1113
It's true that ASLR is only a small security improvement that's
not even relevant to many programs.
I also ran several benchmarks and didn't found any measurable
changes. So in the end going with PIC by default seemed OK.
