Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:54:45 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_zone.c vm_zone.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102131249090.10087-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010212112307.87908P-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Robert Watson wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > > All this sysctl stuff is fine, but dont kill the crashdump reading code! > > If -M or -N are specified then use the old way (and require root to be > > running it). Without -M or -N, use sysctl. > > All patches submitted on the freebsd-audit mailing list to remove setgid > from top, systat, dmesg, etc, have maintained backwards compatibility by > using kmem when the -M or -N argument is provided, permitting them to > continue to work on system dumps -- and even on /dev/kmem, it just This was easy for top and systat because they don't have a -M or -N arg or work on system dumps :-). OTOH, the [-W swap] arg for ps and corresponding support in libkvm have been broken for a long time. No one seems to miss them, but they are still documented. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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