Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:26:16 -0700 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/kldunload kldunload.8 kldunload.c Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.1.20040713171800.03d86568@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <25281.1089751843@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <25281.1089751843@critter.freebsd.dk>
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At 13:50 13/07/2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >But I think you miss the point: This is about giving root the ability >to add a "damnit!" after "kldunload foo". As a (mostly) side note, this will be useful from the point of view of security as well. When there is a security advisory concerning an optional module (compat/linux being the most recent example) it would be nice to have a more effective workaround than "well, you can try `kldunload linux`, but it probably won't work... if it doesn't work, you'll have to reboot the system". Colin Percival
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