Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:58:44 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_zone.c vm_zone.h (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010212205804.92535G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Thomas,
If you find yourself unsufficiently busy at some point, this might be
worth looking into also :-).
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:54:45 +1100 (EST)
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>,
Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>,
cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_zone.c vm_zone.h
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > All this sysctl stuff is fine, but dont kill the crashdump reading code!
> > If -M or -N are specified then use the old way (and require root to be
> > running it). Without -M or -N, use sysctl.
>
> All patches submitted on the freebsd-audit mailing list to remove setgid
> from top, systat, dmesg, etc, have maintained backwards compatibility by
> using kmem when the -M or -N argument is provided, permitting them to
> continue to work on system dumps -- and even on /dev/kmem, it just
This was easy for top and systat because they don't have a -M or -N
arg or work on system dumps :-). OTOH, the [-W swap] arg for ps and
corresponding support in libkvm have been broken for a long time. No
one seems to miss them, but they are still documented.
Bruce
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