realpath(3) et al

[Devon H. O'Dell]

I'd be willing to take over merging this into the base system if Kris has
lost interest.

Kind regards,

Devon H. O'Dell
Systems and Network Engineer
Simpli, Inc. Web Hosting
http://www.simpli.biz

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Jacques A. Vidrine [mailto:nectar at FreeBSD.org]
> Verzonden: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 10:00 PM
> Aan: Devon H. O'Dell
> CC: 'Jason Stone'; security at freebsd.org; kris at FreeBSD.org
> Onderwerp: Re: realpath(3) et al
> 
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:59:51PM +0200, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> > In any case, IBM has a stack smashing protection patch for GCC 3.3 on
> > FreeBSD 4.8 available at
> > http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/buildfreebsd.html (the
> > description page is at http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/).
> It
> > currently works in the latest cvsupped source from 5.1 as well (I've
> built
> > and tested it).
> 
> http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/ has the latest.
> Yes, I'd like to see this in the base system as well.  Our toolchain
> in 5.x is calming down a bit, maybe the timing is getting ripe.
> 
> I thought Kris looked into this before, but I don't recall what might
> have ultimately stopped him from making the commits. cc:ing him in
> case he has insight to share.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
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