On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Pedro Giffuni <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Kay;
>
> It's somewhat interesting for FreeBSD since we carry compatibility
> libraries
> (currently 32 bit but 64 bit will be available) from CentOS 6 .
>
> If you want to play a bit more try building it with _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> [1].
>

FORTIFY_SOURCE looks really interesting. It seems very worthwhile to use
this for releases going forward after 4.1.2.



> It's not too interesting because the native port works fine, though,
> and this year I am mentoring a GSoC to implement FORTIFY_SOURCE
> in FreeBSD, but nevertheless it's fun :).
>
> Pedro.
>
> [1]
> https://securityblog.redhat.com/2014/03/26/fortify-and-you/
>
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