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From: "Erik Paulsen Skaalerud" <erik@pentadon.com>
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Subject: RE: Non-Executable Stack Patch
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> From: owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Tim Baur
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 6:24 AM
> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Tony Meman wrote:
> > I was wondering if there's any non-executable stack patch for
> > FreeBSD's kernel.
>http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/buildfreebsd.html
>
>-tbaur

Can anyone here share their experiences with this patch? I've heard very
little talk about it really, I'm looking for others oppinions before I try
to patch gcc with this. Any major slowdowns on the userland? And if its
major, how much?

Erik.