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From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:59:51PM +0200, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> In any case, IBM has a stack smashing protection patch for GCC 3.3 on
> FreeBSD 4.8 available at
> http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/buildfreebsd.html (the
> description page is at http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/). It
> currently works in the latest cvsupped source from 5.1 as well (I've built
> and tested it).

http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/ has the latest.
Yes, I'd like to see this in the base system as well.  Our toolchain
in 5.x is calming down a bit, maybe the timing is getting ripe.

I thought Kris looked into this before, but I don't recall what might
have ultimately stopped him from making the commits. cc:ing him in
case he has insight to share.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se