On Friday 28 October 2005 07:09, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > We are using the stack protection patches for GCC in production servers > running FreeBSD 4.11 and everything runs well. We are using a fairly > large number of ports (from samba to php to postgresql, etc.) and none > have shown issues with this feature.
> Note that since it is a compiler and library patch, the kernel also > benefits from it. I would say that if a port misbehaves with this, then > it is more likely a problem with the port. I don't know how it is implemented with gcc, but I'm guessing that kernel support is best performancewise (on platforms with hardware support for this). But thanks for your input, I also use php and postgresql, so it is nice to know that they will work :-) br db _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
