Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:00:43 +0200 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Mikolaj Golub <trociny@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a sysctl for process binary osreldate Message-ID: <20120317210043.GQ75778@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <82D45B12-1739-4007-8B23-E8B5565F1BBB@FreeBSD.org> References: <8662e3m3eq.fsf@kopusha.home.net> <82D45B12-1739-4007-8B23-E8B5565F1BBB@FreeBSD.org>
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--26hdtSce1ee+1mvy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:51:25PM +0000, Robert N. M. Watson wrote: >=20 > On 17 Mar 2012, at 19:30, Mikolaj Golub wrote: >=20 > > Currently we can check and change binary osreldate of another process v= ia > > procfs(5). > >=20 > > Kostik suggested to add a new sysctl for the same purpose and also exte= nd > > procstat to show osrel. > >=20 > > Here are patches I am going to commit if there are no objections or > > suggestions. > >=20 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~trociny/kern_proc_osrel.1.patch > > http://people.freebsd.org/~trociny/procstat.osrel.1.patch > >=20 > > I set the same permissions as for procfs(5) osrel -- so only user can r= ead it, > > but may be this is too restrictive and p_cansee on read would be ok? > >=20 > > I added osrel output to procstat -b option: > >=20 > > kopusha:~% procstat -b 2975 > > PID COMM OSREL PATH > > 2975 emacs 1000001 /usr/local/bin/emacs-23.3 > >=20 > > Would this be ok or someone see a better way? >=20 >=20 > Support for writing the field seems to violate the synchronisation protoc= ol defined for p_osrel in proc.h. In the new world order, is this simply a = documentation bug, or is it also a software bug? >=20 This is a documentation bug, I failed to update the field description when added procfs support. --26hdtSce1ee+1mvy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk9k+3oACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4hyOACfZOafnmwN42PCZqU8umJEOPEg 4+cAoMrXPzDbmqfVtQIcGcjak3wkkfZu =k0hP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --26hdtSce1ee+1mvy--
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