Bug 117634 - RFE: Investigate and possibly add PIE support to the Xorg X server
Summary: RFE: Investigate and possibly add PIE support to the Xorg X server
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks: 117628 FC4Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-03-06 00:28 UTC by Mike A. Harris
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-03-15 04:16:40 UTC
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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


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