• Julio César Carrascal Urquijo (17/17) Sep 19 2003 On a server, I'm installing the Adamantix project (http://adamantix.org/...

"Julio César Carrascal Urquijo" <adnoctum phreaker.net> writes:

On a server, I'm installing the Adamantix project (http://adamantix.org/)
wich is a Debian GNU/Linux distribution hardned with special security
patches and extensions applied to the kernel, compilers and standard
packages.

One of those patches is really interesting for the ng:

<quote>
* Buffer overflow protection by using a special GCC compiler patch called
Stack Smashing Protector (SSP). This compiler is also used to compile the
kernel, to protect against kernel buffer overflows.
</quote>

AFAIK the patch was developed on IBM as an open-source patch to GCC and
EGCS. I know that buffer overflows aren't much problem in D but... Any
chance of getting this into DMD?

Thanks


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