From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 23 13:17:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sun-sparc1.infoglobe.com (mail.infoglobe.com [38.216.162.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61254153D0 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:17:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhermes@infoglobe.com) Received: from kenny ([38.216.162.189]) by sun-sparc1.infoglobe.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO203a ID# 560-34435U100L100S0) with SMTP id AAA6369 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:12:29 -0400 Message-ID: <00fa01be8dc5$ba1a6bc0$bda2d826@kenny.infoglobe.com> From: "John S. Hermes" To: Subject: Re: signal permissions Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:13:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Kimball To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 3:43 PM Subject: signal permissions > >Here's a trial balloon: Anyone who can write to an executable file >should be permitted to signal a derived process. > I dunno, I like to keep process space (who it runs as) separate from file space (how it exists). Implied permissions from one space being applied to another always reduces flexibility, right? John Hermes jhermes@infoglobe.com Infoglobe, Inc. (937) 225-9999 x317 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message