From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 29 00:07:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09632 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:07:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from USC-FW.utimaco.co.at (mail-gw.utimaco.co.at [195.96.28.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09466 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:06:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Michael.Schuster@utimaco.co.at) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by USC-FW.utimaco.co.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11660 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:04:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Michael.Schuster@utimaco.co.at) Received: from ns1.int.utimaco.co.at(10.1.0.254) by USC-FW.utimaco.co.at via smap (V2.0) id xma011658; Wed, 29 Apr 98 09:03:38 +0200 Received: from utimaco.co.at (ultra1.int.utimaco.co.at [10.1.0.32]) by safeconcept.int.utimaco.co.at (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA29977 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:03:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3546D0C5.E388ED6B@utimaco.co.at> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:03:33 +0200 From: Michael Schuster Organization: Utimaco Safe Concept GmbH. Linz Austria X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: SIGDANGER Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn wrote: > I may, however, be very unhappy if sshd > or the main lpd process gets killed just because they *happen* to be > the process which requests memory at the wrong time while you're running > that "danger.c" program. ePerhaps a "nodanger(1)" tool (similar to nohup(1)) could provide protection from that behaviour - to be used with discretion, of course. OTOH, you could designate a special [e]uid/[e]gid combination (eg. group == "nodanger" (very imaginative!)) to achieve this; this would also make it harder for any joe user to exploit this for his/her interest. -- Michael Schuster To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message