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From: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@×××××××.net>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stack smash protected daemons
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:22:39
Message-Id: 4156ECDC.7080109@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stack smash protected daemons by Ciaran McCreesh
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6 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
7 | On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:14:35 -0400 John Richard Moser
8 | <nigelenki@×××××××.net> wrote:
9 | | | Feel free to take on the ownership of making this work on every
10 | | | arch's toolchain then. Also feel free to deal with all upstream
11 | | | authors who start instantly dismissing any bugs from Gentoo due to
12 | | | the fact that the toolchain is quite modified to accomplish this
13 | | | task. Take the current stance the GAIM team has with us as an
14 | | | example of what would be to come.
15 | |
16 | | SSP works on all architectures.
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18 | We already *know* that it breaks some critical things on sparc, and
19 | we've added in code to filter out ssp where appropriate. Fact is, you
20 | can't build a bootable sparc system if you remove these filters and
21 | build everything with -fstack-protector.
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23 It breaks X on x86[_64] too, and a couple other things. But there's
24 lines to filter that.
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26 Is this breakage in SSP, or in the actual programs it breaks? (Does SSP
27 break a lot on sparc? That'd be a good indication) If it's SSP, then
28 perhaps someone could offer Etoh a shell and some chroots on a sparc so
29 he can try and fix it?
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32 | | Yes and about 99.9999999% of your user base is probably going to say
33 | | "wha? SSP? Wassat?" if you ask them if they use SSP.
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35 | Which can easily be solved by a few lines of documentation.
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38 Documentation <3
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