Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 00:18:34 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: dg@root.com, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug Message-ID: <199811081618.AAA24983@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Nov 1998 17:07:12 %2B0100." <16650.910541232@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > [*] I've often wished that we had a syslog(2), ie system call, > which didn't require you to go through all the open/bind/send/ > gyrations. Come to think of it, I son't see any reason apart > from the ideological aspect for not having that. It would > improve the reliability and security of syslog a fair bit. As long as it's called something like __syslog(), and the sprintf style expansion is done in user mode. openlog() takes an ident string.. To get "better" syslog security, for non-root processes, this could be ignored and the p_comm of the process used, and the pid forced on.. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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