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Re:Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD by hoistbypetard on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @05:21PM (#17251219)
The OpenBSD project maintains its own fork:

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/cvs/

It's not especially active, but you can see the last change sets were in the past year, so "not maintained for more than a decade" doesn't apply to what they're using.

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Re:Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD by foodstances on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:10PM (#17252469)
That is not a fork, that is OpenCVS which is a brand new, from-scratch implementation. It's not yet being used to host the OpenBSD code (but some AnonCVS mirrors use it).

The CVS that OpenBSD uses is still GNU CVS - https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/cv...

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Re:Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD by hoistbypetard on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:15AM (#17253698)
Looking at my local system, you're exactly right. /usr/bin/cvs is still GNU CVS, and you have to explicitly use /usr/bin/opencvs to get this.

I thought I remembered -current moving to opencvs some time ago, but either I mis-remembered or they moved back.

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