GNU Common Lisp (gcl) - need a new security context?

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Mon Sep 8 16:16:23 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 06:04:35PM +0200, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 16:54 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> > Dropping gcl is a bad idea. gcl generates much better code in many
> > cases;
> > dropping makes Fedora bad for running Common Lisp (CL) applications.
> > There are a lot of CL programs, and CL is still important; "Practical
> > Common Lisp"
> > was published 2005 and was a really popular book.
> I am not unwilling to continue with GCL. However I would need some help
> from people knowing about these issues (on several architectures) and
> how to fix them.

See what libffi does, in particular the SELinux related stuff in closures.c.

	Jakub




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