realpath(3) et al

Bruce M Simpson bms at spc.org
Thu Aug 14 13:22:14 PDT 2003


On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:06:32PM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> *sigh*  i'd hoped the project was 'always' ongoing, and that sharing
> and/or integrating changes amongst the various BSD source trees would be
> commonplace.  the fact that it's not clearly illustrates that our biggest
> enemey in the security game is ourselves.  (by 'selves' i mean anyone who
> feels not sharing a security or bug fix is a good idea.)

I think it would rock if we had more people cross-pollinating the BSDs in
general. Security fixes are no exception. I am thinking in particular of
the non-executable stack stuff in OpenBSD.

BMS


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