Monthly Archive: February 2014

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The Gold Linker

After the Update to Fedora 20 I forgot to update the linker to Gold. Today I released that linking Samba is horribly slow. Time to change the linker to Gold again: Fedora: ll /etc/alternatives/ld /usr/sbin/alternatives –set ld /usr/bin/ld.gold openSUSE: ll /etc/alternatives/ld /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –set ld /usr/bin/ld.gold To still build a special project with ld.bfd use: LDFLAGS=”-fuse-ld=bfd”

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cwrap 1.0.0 – testing your full software stack …

on one single machine! FOSDEM/Brussels, February 2nd, I gave a talk about cwrap. I announced and released version 1.0.0 of cwrap, a set of tools to create a fully isolated network environment to test client/server components on a single host. It provides synthetic account information, hostname resolution and privilege separation support. The heart of cwrap consists of three libraries you can preload to any executable....