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Stack-Smashing Protection Added To OpenBSD gcc

Posted by timothy on from the smooshing-still-in-the-wings dept.

DieNadel writes "As posted here, support to ProPolice was added to OpenBSD. You can check the announcement. Note that THERE ARE dependencies that should be taken care of before building a new kernel, even on -stable."

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  1. yes by honold · · Score: 4, Informative

    perhaps you should look at the project web site?

  2. Not -stable, only -current by stab · · Score: 5, Informative

    Note that THERE ARE dependencies that should be taken care of before
    building a new kernel, even on -stable.

    No, no, no - propolice has only been added into the -current tree, so if you are tracking -stable, continue as before. Only critical fixes go into -stable, certainly nothing as huge as a big GCC patch.

  3. Re:well isn't this just gosh darn great! by F2F · · Score: 3, Informative

    umm, here is what i mean (see section 4.2)...