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Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:41:18 +0200

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,  phst@google.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:33:01 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Why do we need this and the previous change on the release branch?
> > There were zero complaints until now about seccomp for Emacs 28.
> 
> > Can we revert the original change in the first place?
> 
> It apparently leads to crashes when Emacs is run under seccomp with a
> recent glibc version.

That can happen any day, if glibc folks make some change we didn't
know about.  We cannot chase glibc development forever, we will never
succeed catching up with them, certainly not in the long run.



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