From owner-freebsd-audit Mon Feb 12 17:58:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B25637B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:58:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1D1wih98609 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:58:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:58:44 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_zone.c vm_zone.h (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:54:45 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans To: Robert Watson Cc: Peter Wemm , Warner Losh , Peter Pentchev , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message