From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev-return-15956-arch-gentoo-dev=gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 5145 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2004 00:30:44 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Sep 2004 00:30:44 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CAHVS-0007v5-B1 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:30:42 +0000 Received: (qmail 8250 invoked by uid 89); 23 Sep 2004 00:30:41 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 10688 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2004 00:30:41 +0000 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:27:18 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> To: solar@gentoo.org Cc: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>, gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040923012718.09149bab@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <1095898314.5905.2889.camel@simple> References: <4151A04F.5090304@comcast.net> <20040922170424.26f1253b@snowdrop.home> <4151EB12.9010504@comcast.net> <1095898314.5905.2889.camel@simple> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Thu__23_Sep_2004_01_27_18_+0100_ZSyvRO4++C9D2DNp" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stack smash protected daemons X-Archives-Salt: ba51c5f3-4f94-4ce9-a8cf-78fb9c55256d X-Archives-Hash: c30a0bd74dbb051841d25f7c81e2c1be --Signature=_Thu__23_Sep_2004_01_27_18_+0100_ZSyvRO4++C9D2DNp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:11:54 -0400 Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org> wrote: | > Well then leave it turned off, but put a note about the availability | > of the feature in the comments above FEATURES= in make.conf. | | With FEATURES="noautossp" the user would be free to disable it on | their own accord but being a responsible distribution to the users and | the computing world we would/should not. Personally, I would be *very* wary about giving our x86 users a 5% performance hit just to enable a hack which might protect you if your app happens to be badly coded in a particular way... The option's there for anyone that wants it, but turning it on by default probably isn't wise... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature=_Thu__23_Sep_2004_01_27_18_+0100_ZSyvRO4++C9D2DNp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBUhhp96zL6DUtXhERAjUiAKDm/xomTbQwq7Slzpy3N8iBUWFE7ACgsDbj gx3s5XP5oX8QPwRhsIUNs4M= =osKy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Thu__23_Sep_2004_01_27_18_+0100_ZSyvRO4++C9D2DNp--