Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:44:44 +0100 From: Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch to remove setgid kmem from top Message-ID: <20010202184444.A2902@crow.dom2ip.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010202120001.30423B-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@freebsd.org on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:04:44PM -0500 References: <20010202015844.A1246@crow.dom2ip.de> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010202120001.30423B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:04:44PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > This is great -- I won't have a chance to look in detail at your patches > for a bit, but it seems that this is a great step forwards. I don't > suppose you want to now turn your interest to netstat, vmstat, iostat, > dmesg, nfsstat, pstat, and systat? :-) Much of the information needed in > many of these is already exported -- in my mind systat is the most > important as it links against ncurses and provides an interactive > interface. Also, systat is least likely to suffer from the "but it won't > work on a kernel dump" syndrome as it is generally not used for a post > mortem. Actually, I want to take care of the remaining setgid kmem programs. As you proposed, my next victim will probably be systat, as it has only 7 remaining kvm_read calls in two files (plus kvm_getswapinfo, which I had already patched for top to no longer need kmem access for live kernels). - thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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