From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 20:34:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA10112 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 20:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA10107 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 20:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA10847; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:34:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Nate Williams cc: "Mark O'Lear" , questions@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: gmake 3.74 port setgid kmem In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:39:12 MDT." <199607221939.NAA21664@rocky.mt.sri.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:34:43 -0400 Message-ID: <10843.838092883@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams wrote in message ID <199607221939.NAA21664@rocky.mt.sri.com>: > One of the 'features' of gmake is the ability to 'stop compiling' until > the load average of the machine goes down to an acceptable level, so it > needs permissions to read /dev/mem to determine the load average. > I consider it's setgid-ness along with the 'load average' bit to be a > mis-feature. It most definately is, considering you can read the load ave stuff with sysctl, and not go ANYWHERE NEAR /dev/mem... since it's a port, it shouldn't be TOO difficult to do this. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info