How the XZ backdoor works

Posted Apr 3, 2024 12:41 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: How the XZ backdoor works by cyperpunks
Parent article: How the XZ backdoor works

> Or a tiny systemd-client.so lib which contains sd_notify() and other tools for services to use?

systemd had that in the past. They switched to one single support library because handling more than one is a major hassle and frankly not well supported by pkg-config and similar tools.

The next release will use "dlopen" instead of direct linking, so you get mostly the same benefit.