From: Anselm R Garbe [garb...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 7:38 PM
To: hackers mail list
Subject: Re: [hackers] [dwm][PATCH] move config data to read-only sections
On 6 September 2017 at 19:03, wrote:
> From: Hiltjo Posthuma [hil...@codemadness.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September
From: Hiltjo Posthuma [hil...@codemadness.org]
Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 5:32 PM
To: hackers mail list
Subject: Re: [hackers] [dwm][PATCH] move config data to read-only sections
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 05:07:06PM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
> Hi Joachim,
>
> On 6 September 2017 at 17:02,
commit 6a5056d4c919bb5ae0222b2fde0ed787d50092cf
Author: Joachim Henke
AuthorDate: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:26:42 +0200
The configuration data is just used read-only. So making it immutable
might improve security. Testing on x86_64 showed that the .data section
shrunk considerably: by ~2500 bytes.
diff
