Re: [cobalt-users] libsafe program from bell labs

["Jonathan Michaelson" <michaelsonjd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Diana

> I just found some information about this program...released last year by
> Bell Labs...libsafe
> I don't know enough about it to know if I could even use it but it looks
> interesting. Sort of a "wrapper" for the memory stack to prevent buffer
> overflows? If there are any gurus who can elaborate, that would be
> cool..:). If this is something valuable...can it run on the Raq2..at least
> from source?
> News release:
> http://www.businesswire.com/webbox/bw.042000/201111177.htm
>
> more info and source code...including rpms
> http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/libsafe.html

I haven't any experience on libsafe, but looking through google.com there's
plenty of information available, including RPMs for it on RedHat. There's an
interesting post here about how to implement it on RH6.1 and 6.2:
http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/archives/linux/msg00266.html

I don't know how well it would work on the RaQ2 MIPS system, but I *may*
have a play on our spare RaQ3.

Regards,
Jonathan