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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:11 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports broken by KSE changes
Message-ID:  <20021021182911.GA52889@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210202039480.19091-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <20021021013809.GA34637@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210202039480.19091-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 09:06:29PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Well if you can tell me why you thing the KSE changes broke them
> it might help..

It was a guess: they're clearly due to struct related kernel changes.
Ultimately I don't care who broke them or why, as long as someone
fixes them.

> 'ups' has several errors, ONE of which MIGHT be related to KSE.
> (it seems to want to access the pcb that is no longer in the u-area.)
>=20
> most of theothers are wanting to access something called kp_eproc in
> some structure..
> I've never heard of it.. and it was certainly not removed intentionally
> as part of the KSE changes. Looking in the sources kp_eproc was replaced
> by all it's fields being explicitly directly included in=20
> kinfo_proc rather then being in a sub structure called kp_eproc.
> just access the subfileds by their new direct names.
> (This was NOT a KSE change)

OK, this is helpful but a patch would be much better :)

> One port tries to do a ptrace call that Peter removed.
> I think it could be replaced by a new call that does exactly what they
> need if we knew what information they need.

Can someone please look at this?

Kris

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