Re: our recent security stuff

["Darren Reed" <darrenr_(_at_)_netbsd_(_dot_)_org>]

To follow up my own comments..

> > The most amazing thing about this new buffer overflow stuff is that it
> > appears noone in any other project has commented on it in a public
> > mailing list anywhere.  Eerie silence.
> 
> It's probably because the only new thing that's interesting (the
> .rodata ELF section usage) got drowned out by other points you
> are advertising and everyone is sick of hearing about read-only
> stack protection.

Actually, not even this is new - NetBSD has been doing it since 1.2
(since it first started going ELF.)