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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



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