Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 12:18:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALQ manual page review Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030521121706.79561D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20030521004947.X52717-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>
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On Wed, 21 May 2003, Jeff Roberson wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > > Hi gang. > > > > I have written a manual page for the Asynchronous Logging Queues (ALQ) > > facility, available in FreeBSD 5.x. I have been trying to reach Jeff by > > various methods of contact (IRC, mail etc) but I have not had a response > > from him. > > > <...> > The second sentence in the section describing alq_open() is a little bit > confusing. Please considering breaking it up. Another thing that probably needs to appear in the man page is that the credential associated with the thread invoking alq_open() is the credential used to authorize the open(). Right now, alq_open() is invoked only by a sysctl handler requiring privilege to invoke, so this is fine--but the caller should be aware of this and avoid embaressing circumstances (such as using a root privileged thread to open a queue on behalf of an unprivileged process, etc). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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