From owner-cvs-all Tue Jul 16 15: 5: 0 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D91C337B400; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:04:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D649D43E72; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:04:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g6GM4gOo091032; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:04:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:04:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev , David Malone , Luigi Rizzo , Giorgos Keramidas , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/talk display.c talk.1 talk.c In-Reply-To: <20020716190404.F1FAC3811@overcee.wemm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > > Of course, as we all understand, security.bsd.see_other_uids is far a > > > better solution, however, kern.ps_showallprocs does a pretty good job > > > right now (as in -STABLE). > > > > No, it only restricted the interface for viewing *all* processes, not > > individual processes. > > > > (wondering how many times we have to go through this) > > You know, it would probably take less time to go and backport all the > check points to -stable than it would be to keep answering this. And > I'm pretty that a backport could be finished well before this thread > ends. These checks rely on the real uid, and the real uid is not stored in ucred in -STABLE, that's a -CURRENT thing. There are a few other related issues that ended up being good reasons not to MFC the changes since they'd result in ABI breakage. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message