From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 24 3:12:49 2003 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 DD39C37B401; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:12:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1BA43EB2; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:12:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0OBCce13944; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:12:38 -0200 Message-ID: <3E311FA5.8020703@tcoip.com.br> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:12:37 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20030122 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib malloc.c References: <200301232126.h0NLQlqt059398@repoman.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200301232126.h0NLQlqt059398@repoman.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > phk 2003/01/23 13:26:47 PST > > Modified files: > lib/libc/stdlib malloc.c > Log: > For "sensitive" processes, we always set the 'A' flag which causes abort() > to be called on first sight of trouble. > > "sensitive" is somewhat arbitrarily defined as "setuid, setgid, uid == root > or gid == wheel". > > The 'A' option carries no performance penalty. > > It is not possible to override this setting: fix the program instead. > > Absentmindedly nodded OK to by: various Since X runs as root, I tremble in fear at the thought of this change. Some programs are harder to fix than others... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca TCO Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -- Bertrand Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message