Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:08:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_prot.c Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030914130145.19668A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp3cezpcg9.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > 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. >=20 > 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?=20 Well, until 5.x, this limit didn't exist, so right now I think this is still a question of "how conservative to we want to be relative to the status quo". I agree in principle, but we should get the Diablo port (software?) fixed first. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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