Re: Non-executable stack

From: db (db_at_traceroute.dk)
Date: 10/28/05

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:12:40 +0000

    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
    db
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