Re: tcpdump: drop privileges by default?

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:44:41PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> To take advantage of ASLR, you should build PIE binaries. Otherwise only
> the stack segment and the shared libraries get randomized. The issues
> with making PIE the default are performance and stability.

The performance issues are register pressure and VIVT cache friendliness,
right?  What is the stability issue?

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