Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 17:23:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, terry@lambert.org, dg@root.com, darrend@novell.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux 96 (my impressions) - Reply Message-ID: <199609050023.RAA07677@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9609042100.AA12246@theos.com> from "Theo de Raadt" at Sep 4, 96 03:00:38 pm
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> BTW, Terry, nasty modstat bug :) > The LKM package was never released as anything but beta. The modstat were added by CGD to allow non-root users to display the loaded modules. In my initial release, the device was accessable to root only, and none of the commands rand suid. Or do you mean the fact that NetBSD didn't strip out the commented-out Sun copyright manual pages from the source files before distributing them? 8-). I wrote the things from the Sun man pages to make them act like the man page said the SunOS 4.1.3_U1 commands operated. The whole LKM package was a rush job for the modular console design that got adulterated, and then was never implemented. Because I rushed the LKM's, I came in the first Monday of June 1994 and found that USL would not let me distribute my shared library code. I expect it set the whole shared library effort back a year or more. Stinking module code. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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