undefined | Better HN

0 pointslandr0id6y ago0 comments

HardenedBSD (FreeBSD fork) has had ASLR and other mitigations since forever. Shawn submitted a patch that was never merged because of mailing list politics or something of that sort + people afraid it was going to break the world.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D473

0 comments

4 comments · 1 top-level

cperciva6y ago· 3 in thread

> politics or something of that sort

I suppose you could classify "the patch doesn't work and breaks other things besides" that way.

landr0idOP6y ago

HardenedBSD got the userland running fine. It was iirc mostly irrational fear by the FreeBSD team that someone's bad application would break.

loeg6y ago

Nope. The code had major problems that were highlighted during code review, and Shawn never fixed them.

gonzo6y ago

That’s not what happened.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse