Non-executable stack

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On Friday 28 October 2005 07:09, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
> We are using the stack protection patches for GCC in production servers
> running FreeBSD 4.11 and everything runs well. We are using a fairly
> large number of ports (from samba to php to postgresql, etc.) and none
> have shown issues with this feature.

> Note that since it is a compiler and library patch, the kernel also
> benefits from it. I would say that if a port misbehaves with this, then
> it is more likely a problem with the port.

I don't know how it is implemented with gcc, but I'm guessing that kernel 
support is best performancewise (on platforms with hardware support for 
this). But thanks for your input, I also use php and postgresql, so it is 
nice to know that they will work :-)

br
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