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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:27:16 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/sys socketvar.h
Message-ID:  <20011025172521.P77131-100000@delplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011024193708.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

> On 25-Oct-01 Robert Watson wrote:
> > rwatson     2001/10/24 19:03:37 PDT
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/sys              socketvar.h
> >   Log:
> >   o Remove extern showallsockets, defunct as of the change to
> >     kern.security.seeotheruids_permitted.  This was missed in the
> >     commit that made this change elsewhere.
>
> As a somewhat unrelated sidenote: can you trim the name of that sysctl to
> kern.security.seeotheruids, or perhaps to kern.security.see_other_uids (which
> is easier on my eyes at least).  It would seem that the '_permitted' is
> redundant and not needed just as the old ps syctl was ps_showallprocs, not
> ps_showallprocs_permitted.

Please also trim the corresponding kernel variable name, and other long
names.

Index: kern_prot.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/kern_prot.c,v
retrieving revision 1.115
diff -u -2 -r1.115 kern_prot.c
--- kern_prot.c	11 Oct 2001 23:38:15 -0000	1.115
+++ kern_prot.c	12 Oct 2001 10:25:13 -0000
@@ -1351,8 +1297,10 @@
  * of processes and sockets with credentials holding different real uid's
  * is possible using a variety of system MIBs.
+ * XXX: this variable is disgustingly verbosely named.
+ * XXX: data declarations should be together near the beginning of the file.
  */
 static int	kern_security_seeotheruids_permitted = 1;
-SYSCTL_INT(_kern_security, OID_AUTO, seeotheruids_permitted,
-    CTLFLAG_RW, &kern_security_seeotheruids_permitted, 0,
+SYSCTL_INT(_kern_security, OID_AUTO, seeotheruids_permitted, CTLFLAG_RW,
+    &kern_security_seeotheruids_permitted, 0,
     "Unprivileged processes may see subjects/objects with different real uid");

@@ -1516,4 +1463,8 @@
  *
  * XXX: Should modifying and reading this variable require locking?
+ * XXX: this variable is disgustingly verbosely named, yet is not verbose
+ * enough to completely match the corresponding sysctl name which begins
+ * with `kern_security' instead of `kern'.
+ * XXX: data declarations should be together near the beginning of the file.
  */
 static int	kern_unprivileged_procdebug_permitted = 1;


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