Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:40:10 +0100 From: Tomas Olsson <tol@stacken.kth.se> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alec Kloss <alec-keyword-arla.4d43de@SetFilePointer.com>, afs@FreeBSD.org, arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se Subject: Re: Patches to get Arla running on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT Message-ID: <1204008010.4017.6.camel@hippo.t.nxs.se> In-Reply-To: <20080225211424.U46736@fledge.watson.org> References: <20080216035658.W93919@fledge.watson.org> <1203286882.16414.3.camel@heterodyne.kaj> <20080218012608.V96329@fledge.watson.org> <20080222125207.GD38141@hamlet.setfilepointer.com> <20080223092516.O23969@fledge.watson.org> <20080223102922.GF38141@hamlet.setfilepointer.com> <20080223110549.GG38141@hamlet.setfilepointer.com> <20080223161249.GH38141@hamlet.setfilepointer.com> <1203788012.4065.10.camel@hippo.t.nxs.se> <1203893910.4068.14.camel@hippo.t.nxs.se> <20080225211424.U46736@fledge.watson.org>
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On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 21:19 +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Tomas Olsson wrote: > > 1) appl/fs/fs_local.h: would that break `fs nnpfsdeb all`? > > [...] > If I've done (1) correctly then, in practice, it shouldn't change things at > all, except that on FreeBSD 7.x and higher, it will use the priv(9) interface > to check for privilege rather than suser(9). While there are plans for > further privilege semantic changes, the interface change so far is actually a > syntactic change -- the policy remains the same, but information about the > check is managed differently, hence the change to the interface. This is a > precursor to more fine-grained privileges in the kernel. > Actually, I was thinking of the userland side; I do hope fs_local.h isn't included in the kernel things. fs_nnpfsdebug.c seems to rely on HAVE_XDEBDEV etc, but perhaps that should be changed anyway. /t
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