Random relinking at boot comes to httpd(8) and smtpd(8)

Random order relinking of critical components is an OpenBSD feature specifically designed to make it harder to exploit bugs in the resulting binary.sshd(8) was the first of the network-facing daemons to get the random treatment (see this previous report).

Nowin a series of commits that split one daemon (smptd(8)) into six separate binaries, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) is bringing httpd(8) and smptd(8), both common in network facing configrations, into the random relink at boot fold.

httpd(8) was the first of the two:

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