FORTIFY_SOURCE feature of libssp, thus checking the size of arguments to
various string and memory copy and set functions (as well as a few system
calls and other miscellany) where known at function entry. RedHat has
evidently built all "core system packages" with this option for some time.
This option should be used at the top of Makefiles (or Makefile.inc where
this is used for subdirectories) but after any setting of LIB.
This is only useful for userland code, and cannot be used in libc or in
any code which includes the libc internals, because it overrides certain
libc functions with macros. Some effort has been made to make USE_FORT=yes
work correctly for a full-system build by having the bsd.sys.mk logic
disable the feature where it should not be used (libc, libssp iteself,
the kernel) but no attempt has been made to build the entire system with
USE_FORT and doing so will doubtless expose numerous bugs and misfeatures.
Adjust the system build so that all programs and libraries that are setuid,
directly handle network data (including serial comm data), perform
authentication, or appear likely to have (or have a history of having)
data-driven bugs (e.g. file(1)) are built with USE_FORT=yes by default,
with the exception of libc, which cannot use USE_FORT and thus uses
only USE_SSP by default. Tested on i386 with no ill results; USE_FORT=no
per-directory or in a system build will disable if desired.
because it tries to set the tty not to print kerninfo. Change it
to only only play with the tty when ping is running in the foreground
(and will not stop when calling tcsetattr()). In my opinion, it is
preferable to print the kerninfo line with the ping info message
rather than to mess with the tty, but that's just me.
Some hosts and gateways ignore record route, but not "many." Of course,
more are firewalled. But that's not what was meant here.
Expand flood-pinging admonition to include multicast addresses.
Note flags that conflict with ping under Solaris and FreeBSD.
Reorder BUGS in rough order of significance.
seanb