ProPolice/SSP in 7.0

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Thu Dec 27 14:52:16 PST 2007


Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer at googlemail.com> writes:
> I've known about ProPolice/SSP for a while now (from the Gentoo world)
> and am aware that FreeBSD 7.0 doesn't yet support it though I know of
> Jeremy Le Hen's patches (http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/FreeBSD/SSP/).

Wrong.  FreeBSD 7 has had SSP support since May; the patch you mention
just turns it on by default.  You can probably achieve the same effect
by adding -fstack-protector to CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS in make.conf.

DES
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