Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 18:03:54 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Subject: Re: Random Qustions... Message-ID: <19970604180354.XH36943@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970603134538.28675A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>; from David E. Cross on Jun 3, 1997 13:48:00 -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970603134538.28675A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
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As David E. Cross wrote: > 1) what do suid/sgid devices do? At best serve as a security hole. :) Not really, since you cannot execute a device at all. > 2) what do the numbers displayed when the system is syncing on a > halt/reboot mean? The number of outstanding buffers to flush. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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