Re: ProPolice/SSP in 7.0

Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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