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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2001 01:16:35 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
Cc:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: De-setgid-ifying ipcs(1) 
Message-ID:  <20010518081635.F366B380A@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20010518014032.N7118@superconductor.rush.net> 

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> [010518 01:05] wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > ipcs(1) is currently installed as setgid kmem.  This isn't good for
> > obvious reasons.  Moreover, the information it needs is easily
> > exported via sysctl.  Below is a patch which adds the necessary sysctl
> > oids and changes ipcs(1) to use them.
[..]
> I'm glad you kept kmem backwards compatibility, as this is required
> for post mortem analysis of crashdumps.

Yes. Thanks!  (and the same from me about the !use_sysctls thing)

Does anybody feel like fixing netstat(1) while we're at it?

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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