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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com> writes:
>> I've known about ProPolice/SSP for a while now (from the Gentoo world) a=
nd=20
>> am aware that FreeBSD 7.0 doesn't yet support it though I know of Jeremy=
Le=20
>> Hen's patches (http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/FreeBSD/SSP/).
>
> Wrong. FreeBSD 7 has had SSP support since May; the patch you mention ju=
st=20
> turns it on by default. You can probably achieve the same effect by addi=
ng=20
> -fstack-protector to CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS in make.conf.
I'd very much like us to think about turning it on by default -- while stac=
k=20
protection is necessarily imperfect, it is increasingly considered a standa=
rd=20
compiler feature to have enabled on operating systems. In fact, I know of=
=20
relatively few that don't enable it by default...
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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