On 2020/03/18 11:55, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:25 AM Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
> <andreas.kah...@abc.se> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:59:21AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 4:26 AM Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 2020-03-18, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > According to 
> > > > > https://man.openbsd.org/NetBSD-8.1/security.7#FORTIFY_SOURCE
> > > > > OpenBSD implements glibc bounds checking on certain functions. I am
> > > > > trying to detect FORTIFY_SOURCE without looking up operating system
> > > > > names and versions.
> > > >
> > > > That is a NetBSD manual page, it does not apply to OpenBSD.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > I may be splitting hairs, but the pages title clearly says it is an
> > > OpenBSD man page.
> >
> > I have no real connection to the OpenBSD project other than being a long
> > time user, and I have an interest in documentation.
> >
> > It says, at the top of the page, it says "OpenBSD manual page server",
> > i.e. it's a manual page server hosted by the OpenBSD project.  The
> > link that you mention contains the string "NetBSD-8.1" and the name
> > of the manual that you're looking at is "security — NetBSD security
> > features".  Also, "NetBSD-8.1" is repeated in the page footer and the
> > string "NetBSD" occurs many times throughout the page while "OpenBSD"
> > really only occurs once.
> 
> Hovering the mouse over the open tab says "security(7) - OpenBSD man
> pages". I double checked it when I saw the references to NetBSD.
> 
> Regarding the references to NetBSD, I thought your sed went sideways.
> I assumed OpenBSD and NetBSD were collaborating and shared code and
> docs in some places.
> 
> Figuring out why the sed was broken was not my task at hand. I was on
> the site to figure out why my test for FORTIFY_SOURCE was failing. The
> admins can figure that out why the document conversion is not working
> they notice it.
> 
> Jeff

Since OpenBSD does not have FORTIFY_SOURCE it is correct that your test
for it is failing on OpenBSD.

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