Bug 117634

Summary: RFE: Investigate and possibly add PIE support to the Xorg X server
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Mike A. Harris 2004-03-06 00:28:57 UTC 
Investigate adding PIE (Position Independant Executable) support
to the XFree86 X server binary included with XFree86.

PIE support for XFree86 is also being tracked in bug #117628
Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2004-12-22 16:19:31 UTC 
This would likely cause major performance loss on the X server
so might not be worth it, however if we are adding PIE support
to other parts of X, it may make sense to explore the option
of building PIE support into the X server as an option to those
who may prefer the additional security over the performance.

For our OS however I believe PIE X server would be too big of a
perf hit, however it would need testing to see how big.
Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2005-03-15 04:16:40 UTC 
Being tracked upstream now:

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