From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 18 1:16:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 510AA37B424 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 01:16:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4I8GaM63008 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 01:16:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id F366B380A; Fri, 18 May 2001 01:16:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Dima Dorfman , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: De-setgid-ifying ipcs(1) In-Reply-To: <20010518014032.N7118@superconductor.rush.net> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:16:35 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010518081635.F366B380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Dima Dorfman [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message