Bug 117628

Summary:	RFE: Add -fPIE support to Xorg
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Component:	xorg-x11	Assignee:	X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dberkholz, gajownik, jdennis, twoerner
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2005-03-15 04:23:02 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	117629, 117630, 117631, 117632, 117633, 117634
Bug Blocks:	136451

Description Mike A. Harris 2004-03-06 00:21:02 UTC

Several applications included in XFree86 packaging are daemons,
or SUID apps, of which can benefit from being built with PIE
(Position Independant Executable) support.

This bug is a tracker bug to track XFree86 PIE requests for
enhancement.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2004-03-06 00:33:50 UTC

Each of the following should be investigated individually:

XFree86-4.3.0-62.i386.rpm
        /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86  - bug #117634
        /usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt     - bug #117629

XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-62.i386.rpm
        /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm      - bug #117630

XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-62.i386.rpm
        /usr/X11R6/bin/xfs      - bug #117631

XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-62.i386.rpm
        /usr/X11R6/bin/Xnest    - bug #117632

XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-62.i386.rpm
        /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb     - bug #117633

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2004-07-08 05:07:33 UTC

PIE documentation, courtesy of Uli:

http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nonselsec.pdf

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2004-10-12 17:15:24 UTC

Deferring for FC4 development consideration.

Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2005-03-15 04:23:02 UTC

Being tracked upstream now:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2730