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Date:      Wed, 17 Jul 2002 01:21:54 +0000
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
To:        thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org
Cc:        audit@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lock(1) -v (was: VT_LOCKSWITCH) 
Message-ID:  <20020717012154.CC5783E22@turbine.trit.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020715115148.A30985@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>; from thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org on "Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:51:48 %2B0200"

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Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 2002-07-15, Dima Dorfman écrivait :
> 
> > Anybody care to review this patch?  I'd rather not commit unreviewed
> > changes to a setuid root program.
> 
> I think we'd be safer with an explicit initialization of vtyunlock.

Where, why, and to what do you think it should be initialized?  It's
safe to assume that global variables will be initialized to 0, and it
isn't used anywhere (except in tests) unless it's set to 0x2 when we
lock the screen.

Thanks,

Dima.

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