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Hi,

I use -fPIC and the prelink utility on almost everything I compile, I was wondering what (if any) effect this has on the security of my binaries.

Cheers,

meekrob

meekrob wrote:I use -fPIC and the prelink utility on almost everything I compile, I was wondering what (if any) effect this has on the security of my binaries.

prelink is the exact opposite idea to ASLR and PaX will override it, so you may as well not use both at the same time.

Thanks a lot!