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From:	Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To:	John Richard Moser <nigelenki@×××××××.net>
Cc:	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] Stack smash protected daemons
Date:	Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:27:43
Message-Id:	`20040926172358.7f9f81c7@snowdrop.home`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-dev] Stack smash protected daemons by John Richard Moser

1	On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:22:52 -0400 John Richard Moser
2	<nigelenki@×××××××.net> wrote:
3	\| Is this breakage in SSP, or in the actual programs it breaks? (Does
4	\| SSP break a lot on sparc? That'd be a good indication) If it's SSP,
5	\| then perhaps someone could offer Etoh a shell and some chroots on a
6	\| sparc so he can try and fix it?
7
8	On sparc, certain totally legit and very necessary non-broken programs
9	work perfectly without SSP, and turning on SSP will guarantee that they
10	will always fail. I'd say that's SSP's fault...
11
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13	Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
14	Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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