realpath(3) et al

[Devon H. O'Dell]

This is something that I brought up at the beginning of this thread. There
were several reasons why it was not/is not implemented. The final outcome
(as far as I can tell) is that I'm creating and maintaining some ports
implementing IBM's SSP patches for GCC 3.3 and GCC 2.9.5.

--Devon

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-freebsd-security at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> security at freebsd.org] Namens Bruce M Simpson
> Verzonden: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:19 PM
> Aan: Mike Hoskins
> CC: security at freebsd.org
> Onderwerp: Re: realpath(3) et al
> 
> 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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