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Re: Small security patches

From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:56:17 -0500
Subject: Re: Small security patches
References: <3DF76981.86674258@ieee.org> <20021211192211.GD29798@redhat.com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Shouldn't the global symbols be marked as "NO_COPY"?

I am not sure why things are as they are.
These symbols are initialized in do_global_ctors and never change.
Are the constructors running again after a fork? If so, NO_COPY is fine.
It would seem more efficient to copy than to rerun the constructors,
but I probably overlook some factors.

Pierre

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