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Subject: Re: Non-executable stack
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On Saturday 29 October 2005 12:36, you wrote:
> The issue is not one of want, but one of practicality.  FreeBSD updates
> to new versions of gcc relatively frequently, and having to update the
> propolice patch with each update (or waiting for an update) would be
> additional work.
>
> It appears that propolice has finally made its way into gcc 4.1, so
> hopefully that will be ready for FreeBSD 7.

I don't want a gcc fix via propolice, I want kernel support for this. So that 
if a program tries to execute code in the stack or heap it will crash.

br
db