From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 1:16:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B18237B416; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:16:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.seasidesoftware.co.za) by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16QmDP-000Pno-00; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:18:39 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: FreeBSD@jovi.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/33904: secure mode bug In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:09:37 PST." <20020116010937.K31328@blossom.cjclark.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:18:39 +0200 Message-ID: <99187.1011172719@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:09:37 PST, "Crist J . Clark" wrote: > I think there is a valid point. The settimeofday(2) call returns > success even though the change requested by the call is not really > done. This is somewhat questionable behavior. The documentation for > settimeofday(2) was not clear about how this works under elevated > securelevel(8), and in fact, the documentation is actually wrong > (which I will fix shortly). I'm not disputing the need to correct settimeofday(2). The PR is already assigned to nsayer with a request to do this. But that's it. The notion of changing the documentation of all userland consumers is what I'm challenging. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message