Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:04:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/talk display.c talk.1 talk.c Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020716180332.84730D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020716190404.F1FAC3811@overcee.wemm.org>
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > > Of course, as we all understand, security.bsd.see_other_uids is far a > > > better solution, however, kern.ps_showallprocs does a pretty good job > > > right now (as in -STABLE). > > > > No, it only restricted the interface for viewing *all* processes, not > > individual processes. > > > > (wondering how many times we have to go through this) > > You know, it would probably take less time to go and backport all the > check points to -stable than it would be to keep answering this. And > I'm pretty that a backport could be finished well before this thread > ends. These checks rely on the real uid, and the real uid is not stored in ucred in -STABLE, that's a -CURRENT thing. There are a few other related issues that ended up being good reasons not to MFC the changes since they'd result in ABI breakage. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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