Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 07:44:24 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Oleg Cherkasov <Oleg.Cherkasov@mail.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: philosophical question... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011203074251.94074Q-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20011203032305.K92148@elvis.mu.org>
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Oleg Cherkasov <Oleg.Cherkasov@mail.com> [011203 03:16] wrote: > > > > Think a new key 'malloc.random' for sysctl could be more useful, protected > > with 'kern.securelevel' > 1. > > However, malloc(3) has nothing to do with the kernel. Yeah, I'm not sure why it would be keyed off of 'securelevel'. Seems to me that we should avoid any more userland cruft being associated unnecessarily with securelevels, actually :-). And if we do stuff this in a securelevel, it sounds like we need a userland.<applicationname> sysctl namespace. More likely, we just need this to be a flag on /etc/malloc.conf. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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