[PATCH] tailored assertions for priv_addset and setppriv

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Oct 30 11:08:27 CET 2012


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In message <508F8C23.2000805 at schokola.de>, Nils Goroll writes:

>We could, however, consider to assert in SETPPRIV that setppriv(PRIV_OFF, ...) 
>succeeds rather than only throwing a warning if it fails, because this implies 
>that we may be running with more privileges than we intended to.

I think that is a good idea.  Warnings tend to become "it always says that..."

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