Changeset ee0959b

Timestamp:

10/17/2022 08:19:01 PM (19 months ago)

Author:

David Bryant <davidbryant@…>

Branches:

11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, bdubbs/gcc13, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

6d46ee62

Parents:

99ecc76

Message:

Corrected grammar and idiom, clarified a couple of things.

File:

• chapter01/whatsnew.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/whatsnew.xml

@@ -12 +12 @@
   <title>What's new since the last release</title>
 
-  <para>In 11.3 release, <parameter>--enable-default-pie</parameter>
+  <para>In the 11.3 release, <parameter>--enable-default-pie</parameter>
   and <parameter>--enable-default-ssp</parameter> are enabled for GCC.
-  They can mitigate some type of malicious attacks but they cannot provide
-  a full protection.  In case if you are reading a programming textbook,
-  you may need to disable PIE and SSP with GCC options
-  <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>
-  because some textbooks assume they were disabled by default.</para>
-
-  <para>Below is a list of package updates made since the previous
-  release of the book.</para>
+  These techniques can mitigate some malicious attacks, but they do not provide
+  perfect security.  If you are reading LFS and a programming textbook,
+  you may need to disable PIE and SSP with the GCC options
+  <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>,
+  because some textbooks assume these options are disabled by default.</para>
+
+  <para>Here is a list of the packages updated since the previous
+  release of LFS.</para>
 
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