[PATCH libgcrypt] Disable CPU speculation-related misfeatures

Guido Trentalancia guido at trentalancia.com
Mon Jun 23 13:57:04 CEST 2025


It does not change the property of the system, it only changes the
properties of the process (or thread).

# info prctl | sed -n 4,4p

prctl - operations on a process or thread

Regards,

Guido

On Sun, 22/06/2025 at 18.50 +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 23:40, Collin Funk said:
> 
> > I had the same thought when I saw the patch and checked openssl. It
> > doesn't do it. Perhaps some others do, but I don't have them cloned
> > to
> > check. :)
> 
> I also agree.  A library should not change properties of the system -
> this is the task of the application.  A common exception I recall is
> to
> ignore SIGPIPE because this is actualy a misfeature and libraries
> which
> spawn other processes should make sure that this is ignored.
> 
> 
> Salam-Shalom,
> 
>    Werner
> 



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