Hi,

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:26:43PM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> this was discussed on debian-mentors today - some lintian warnings are
> not 100% reliable

Yeah, I've been following that.

> $ hardening-check flactag
> flactag:
>  Position Independent Executable: yes
>  Stack protected: yes
>  Fortify Source functions: yes (some protected functions found)
>  Read-only relocations: yes
>  Immediate binding: yes
> 
> $ hardening-check discid
> discid:
>  Position Independent Executable: yes
>  Stack protected: no, not found!

I think this is the key. The discid binary is so simple it may well not have
a stack! The 'main' function is barely 10 lines long, and just instantiates
a very simple class.

Andy


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