Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:18:39 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        FreeBSD@jovi.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/33904: secure mode bug 
Message-ID:  <99187.1011172719@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:09:37 PST." <20020116010937.K31328@blossom.cjclark.org> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help


On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:09:37 PST, "Crist J . Clark" wrote:

> I think there is a valid point. The settimeofday(2) call returns
> success even though the change requested by the call is not really
> done. This is somewhat questionable behavior. The documentation for
> settimeofday(2) was not clear about how this works under elevated
> securelevel(8), and in fact, the documentation is actually wrong
> (which I will fix shortly).

I'm not disputing the need to correct settimeofday(2).  The PR is
already assigned to nsayer with a request to do this.

But that's it.  The notion of changing the documentation of all userland
consumers is what I'm challenging.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?99187.1011172719>