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Message-ID: <20140724160353.GJ16795@example.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:03:53 +0200
From: u-igbb@...ey.se
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl firsts

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 08:04:05PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> before any of the competitors. A few to start it off, in roughly
> chronological order:
> 
> - TCB shadow passwords
> - Bcrypt in libc crypt
> - Safe and working thread cancellation
> - Correctly-rounded sqrt on 32-bit x86
> - AS-safe and fail-safe dynamic TLS
> - VSDO on 32-bit x86
> - Link-local address scope ids in hosts file
> - Using link-local addresses for nameservers in resolv.conf
> - OpenRISC 1000 (or1k) port in upstream

- --preload (a fix for the bad LD_PRELOAD design)

            which makes it safe to preload without the "unstoppable"
            inheritance of LD_PRELOAD and otoh makes it possible to
            protect a binary from accidental LD_PRELOAD by --preload
            with a blank argument

Rune

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