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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:30:31 -0500
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, jhb@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r244154 - head/bin/ps
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxg=NSLb1y_Ni%2B=3Siq_5mUDJtMGLvXGncD19XEgZOdOiDQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121213181621.GG71906@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <201212121545.qBCFj4Hl086444@svn.freebsd.org> <20121212210652.GO3013@kib.kiev.ua> <20121213111240.GB1381@garage.freebsd.pl> <20121213161242.GE71906@kib.kiev.ua> <20121213165541.GD1381@garage.freebsd.pl> <20121213181621.GG71906@kib.kiev.ua>

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On 13 December 2012 13:16, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 05:55:41PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 06:12:42PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:12:44PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:06:52PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>> > > I saw CTLFLAG_TUN on the sysctl and assumed it is read-only...
>> > > How about defining BSD_PID_MAX in sys/proc.h, which would be visible by
>> > > userland as well and setting PID_MAX to BSD_PID_MAX?
>> > >
>> > > This would also help bsnmpd.
>> > >
>> > >   http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/PID_MAX.patch
>> > Do you know why PID_MAX is under _KERNEL ? If there is no real reason,
>> > it would be better to move it outside kernel-only section. sys/proc.h
>> > is not in POSIX anyway.
>>
>> I assumed it will break some ports that may define it themselves.
>> I wonder if we could do a test ports build to see what's the impact.
>
> Sure.
>
> On the other hand, sys/proc.h is mostly useless for the application code
> as it is now. Might be, use
> #ifndef PID_MAX
> braces ?

I think it makes more sense to unconditionally define it.  A file
including sys/proc.h almost certainly wants the real PID_MAX.  It
would be better to cause a pre-process time failure than to have it
silently hide the problem.



-- 
Eitan Adler
Source, Ports, Doc committer
Bugmeister, Ports Security teams



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