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Date:      Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:30:51 -0400
From:      Chris <rip@overflow.no>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [fbsd] Integrating ProPolice/SSP into FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <448A12BB.3040401@overflow.no>
In-Reply-To: <p06230932c0afbc6f54dc@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <20060526153422.GB25953@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20060609095751.GI1273@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <4489DCAE.3070005@overflow.no> <20060609233148.GA88285@gothmog.pc> <p06230932c0afbc6f54dc@[128.113.24.47]>

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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 2:31 AM +0300 6/10/06, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> On 2006-06-09 16:40, Chris <rip@overflow.no> wrote:
>>
>>  > I'm using it successfuly with the stackp-gap and the random
>>  > mmap on 6.1-RELEASE. No problems at all really :) Except
>>  > that I want a nob for gcc to use the protection by default.
>>  > We discussed this in another email.
>>
>> You can always use `/etc/make.conf' to set it globally, right?
>
For the system itself, yes, but as the below text also says: not for
customs built programs.
> Not quite globally.  That will only set it for programs
> whose makefiles .include /usr/share/mk/sys.mk .  That's
> all of buildworld, but it wouldn't include programs that
> people are building on their own.
>

Exactly :) This is however the default on the 4.x and 5.x patches as
opposed to the 6.x and 7.x which has slight modified behaviour.
I think Jeremie did this to make it as little intrusive as possible,
which was a good thought, although I would like the option to make it
very intrusive :)

-Chris




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