Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 18:22:14 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_prot.c Message-ID: <xzp3cezpcg9.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030914113941.19069B-100000@fledge.watson.org> (Robert Watson's message of "Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:43:32 -0400 (EDT)") References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030914113941.19069B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes: > That said, to be frank, no, I'm not sure I want to do this. But I also > want to make sure we don't break important applications. What about important applications that rely on the fact that unprivileged users can't send SIGALRM to privileged processes? That used to be the case for ping(8) (though I don't think it is any more), and there may be others. Shouldn't we err on the side of caution? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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