On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <annu...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > > 21.09.2013, 18:26, "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org>: >> On 09/21/13 09:09, Bryan Drewery wrote: >> >>> On 9/21/2013 9:00 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >>>> On 09/21/13 05:47, Bryan Drewery wrote: >>>>> Ports now support enabling Stack Protector [1] support on FreeBSD 10 >>>>> i386 and amd64, and older releases on amd64 only currently. >>>> Why only those architectures? >>>> -Nathan >>> I was only able to test on amd64 and i386. And that took 37 exp-runs >>> over a month. >>> >>> See commit and CHANGES for more discussion on why not i386 on <10: >>> >>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=327697 >> >> OK. If I set this on powerpc anyway, will it turn on? I'm happy to >> (slowly) test it there. > > AFAIU, it's pointless to use stack protector on ppc because stack smashing > attacks are just impossible here.
Could you explain why? -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"