From owner-freebsd-security Mon Apr 22 14:18:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com (bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7FC37B9BB for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B97A5E52; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:16:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3MLGPh01071; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:16:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:16:25 -0500 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: security at FreeBSD Subject: Re: Q about FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio Message-ID: <20020422161625.A1046@sheol.localdomain> Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com References: <20020422151956.A919@sheol.localdomain> <20020422203216.GR38320@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020422203216.GR38320@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:32:16PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Apr 22, at 01:32 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * D J Hawkey Jr [020422 13:27] wrote: > > Hello All. > > > > Received this SA today, and I have but four questions: > > > > - Is this really only a kernel re-build and install thang? > > - Shouldn't filedesc.h be copied to /usr/include/sys? > > Doesn't matter. As in, "No userland app should/will need/use the new prototype."? Would 'installworld' move it to /usr/include/sys? > > - libc (and therefore userland) really isn't involved at all? > > - 'keyinit' was used as an example, but the hole is > > just in the kernel? > > There's no hole in the kernel, this patch basically puts seatbelts > in the kernel to protect against a very easy to make mistake. Ah. Alrighty then. > -Alfred Dave -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message