Metasploit also distributes a copy of bionic with some patches in order to compile multistage shellcodes without libc dependencies. I would love to have a fork of bionic in the suckless repo with mk or makefiles.. I always find anoying the android.mk ..unless we do a replacement to use android.mk without the sdk, just using the common unix system tools
On 09/10/2010, at 20:34, Jens Staal <staal1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list > > As far as I have understood (http://suckless.org/project_ideas) and > idea has been to use bionic as static libc in the Sta.li distribution. > However, it seems like this libc is relatively closely attached to the > Android SDK/NDK > (http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2008/11/six-million-dollar-libc.html > ,DGentry reply, 4th comment) and I doubt that the Android devs are > interested in patches not needed specifically for Android in their > tree. > I suppose this means that a fork/spoon/spork of bionic would have to > be made with patches that enables it to be a general-purpose static > libc. > > If this is indeed what you suckless gurus have been planning, I got a > suggested name for this branch with some obscure litterary references > (which I will explain below). > > suggested name: "fReemade libc" > > The name links the "6 million dollar man" reference of bionic to the > Remade in the steampunk/dark fantasy Bas-Lag > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas-Lag) novels of China Miéville > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville). The Remade are the > product of a punishment where criminals are fused to mechanical (or > animal) parts, which in essence is a life-long sentence to slavery. > Some revolutionary Remade call themselves fReemade. > > I thought it was a pretty cool link with several nice interpretations > - libc getting "freed" from its now limited purpose, builders of > statically linked binaries getting "freed" from the (AFAIK) unresolved > legal issues of LGPL when licence conflicts may occur. > > > PS sorry if this came out as a "brainfart" DS >
