From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 4 09:21:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA07989 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:21:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA07975 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA02818; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 18:21:49 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20417; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 18:03:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970604180354.XH36943@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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... References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from David E. Cross on Jun 3, 1997 13:48:00 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)