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Re: [PATCH v12 00/32] Validate binary before use
- From: Doug Evans <xdje42 at gmail dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 08:22:35 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 00/32] Validate binary before use
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
> The Fedora patchset intentionally disables build-ids verification/lookup if
> random-program is specified as it was breaking some compatibility
Interesting. What kind of compatibility?
> and IMO it
> does not make sense to specify random-program if build-ids are available.
Why is that?
[Just because one has a build id doesn't necessarily mean one knows where
a program is. Or did I misunderstand?]