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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:58:03 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:32:00AM +1100, Kees Cook wrote:
> I've wanted this for a while (especially for the coming detected
> support for stack protector). Having more than just the clfags is, I
> think, important. We'd likely want to record the entire environment
> (compiler version, linker version, flags on both, etc).

... which makes me think of /proc/config.gz

Can we do something like that here too?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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