In message <200501281914.j0SJETJH052081_at_blue.mwk.domain>, "Mark W. Krentel" writes: >>>>>> "PHK" == Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk> writes: > >PHK> The only real problem here is that fstat(1) uses kvm in the first place. >PHK> The necessary information should be exported via sysctls. > >PHK> No program used as part of regular system operation should use kvm. > >Ok. That still leaves btsockstat, netstat and trpt (and fstat) as >setgid kmem programs. Are there plans to rewrite them? > >Until then, I think it's not a bad idea to put a bandaid on fstat(1), >even if it's temporary. > >Also, there's still the bug that kvm_read(3), and kmem(4) don't check >their arguments for values that lead to address wrap. I didn't mean to imply that these bugs should not be fixed, I just wanted to repeat the higher goal so we didn't loose sight of it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Fri Jan 28 2005 - 18:20:50 UTC
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