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Date:      Fri, 26 Aug 2016 08:18:22 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-toolchain@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Time to enable partial relro
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfqAmhN1owbo_rDt5xjC%2BbboOHrgu2xDHeZi1P02rX7EwQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b75890eb-d8bd-759e-002f-ab0c16db0975@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello;
>
> GNU RELRO support was committed in r230784 (2012-01-30) but we never enabled
> it by default.

So what's the summary of why we'd want to do that? What benefit does it bring?
Sure, other folks do it, but why?

Warner



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