From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 17 23:34:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alive.znep.com (sense-sea-MegaSub-1-222.oz.net [216.39.144.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D23914DE9 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 23:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA22282; Mon, 17 May 1999 23:38:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 23:38:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Slemko To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: so use sysctl (was: Re: libkvm sucks) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: [...] > unf! > > part of a multithreaded ident server that i got bored with... > i'm not entirely sure it still works: Yea, that idea works, thanks. I didn't notice that the way this is done was changed in 3.x to add the sysctl option. I do wonder about the quantity of raw information it exposes to anyone without it being filtered through some "trusted" code that hides any private information, especially if any such info is added at a later time to existing structures. In any case, it makes sense, and is a reasonable alternative. Unfortunately it isn't portable, but that's life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message