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Date:      Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:37:02 -0400
From:      Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net>
To:        Mikolaj Golub <trociny@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Kostik Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: a sysctl for process binary osreldate
Message-ID:  <20120317203702.GA42572@DataIX.net>
In-Reply-To: <8662e3m3eq.fsf@kopusha.home.net>
References:  <8662e3m3eq.fsf@kopusha.home.net>

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On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:30:05PM +0200, Mikolaj Golub wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently we can check and change binary osreldate of another process via
> procfs(5).
> 
> Kostik suggested to add a new sysctl for the same purpose and also extend
> procstat to show osrel.
> 
> Here are patches I am going to commit if there are no objections or
> suggestions.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~trociny/kern_proc_osrel.1.patch
> http://people.freebsd.org/~trociny/procstat.osrel.1.patch
> 
> I set the same permissions as for procfs(5) osrel -- so only user can read it,
> but may be this is too restrictive and p_cansee on read would be ok?
> 
> I added osrel output to procstat -b option:
> 
> kopusha:~% procstat -b 2975
>   PID COMM                OSREL PATH
>  2975 emacs             1000001 /usr/local/bin/emacs-23.3
> 
> Would this be ok or someone see a better way?
> 

Would this be a planned MFC to stable/N as well specifcially 8 ?

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