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Date:      Fri, 24 Jan 2003 04:49:46 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib malloc.c
Message-ID:  <20030124024946.GB9500@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200301232126.h0NLQlqt059398@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200301232126.h0NLQlqt059398@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On 2003-01-23 13:26, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> For "sensitive" processes, we always set the 'A' flag which causes
> abort() to be called on first sight of trouble.
>
> "sensitive" is somewhat arbitrarily defined as "setuid, setgid, uid
> == root or gid == wheel".
>
> The 'A' option carries no performance penalty.
>
> It is not possible to override this setting: fix the program instead.

That's not always possible, if the program comes in binary-only
executables, but I guess nobody wants to run those binaries as
root or wheel, right?

> Revision  Changes    Path
> 1.73      +7 -0      src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c

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