Re: [Announcement] "Exec Shield", new Linux security feature

[Marc-Christian Petersen]

On Friday 02 May 2003 19:05, Matthias Andree wrote:

Hi Matthias,

> Am I the only one under the impression that this looks as though this
> had waited for OpenBSD 3.3 to say "Blbrrrrrrrrp! we're first to have
> stack protection in the kernel and don't need to hack gcc." (Their W^X
> isn't enabled on the i386 architecture, but is due (on i386) in 3.4.)
hehehe ;) Well, they cannot say this even w/o exec shield b/c 
www.grsecurity.net. :)

ciao, Marc