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On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:09:41AM +0200, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:

> We are using the stack protection patches for GCC in production servers=
=20
> running FreeBSD 4.11 and everything runs well. We are using a fairly=20
> large number of ports (from samba to php to postgresql, etc.) and none=20
> have shown issues with this feature.

Several years ago when I last used this, X did not work when compiled
with propolice, and there were problems with a couple of other ports
that I forget now.

Kris

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