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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:53:09 +0100
From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com>
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Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:

>On Saturday 27 December 2003 01:08, force wrote:
>  
>
>>hello,
>>i'm interested in finding out howto disable stack execution on FreeBSD 4.x
>>i would also like a list if possible of the related kernel source files
>>involved in memory management
>>    
>>
>
>This neat solaris feature? It's not available on FreeBSD (at least for i386 
>afaik). If you need it, you have to use OpenBSD (or solaris)
>Regarding the memory management I think you have to have a closer look into 
>the source, ask at freebsd-hackers@ or the developer handbook:
>http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/
>index.html
>
>-Harry
>  
>
I was checking out how this worked a while ago -- you may want to take a 
look into IBM's
SSP patches for GCC. I was going to make a port of this, but haven't had 
time. Perhaps this
is something you could do?

--Devon