Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mmh, we could restrict the monitor to trusted filesystems (eg /).
Right, but that's already a Hurd-specific extension. So it's fine to expect it to use another Hurd-specific extension to get a reliable PID or other identification. > I am not really particularly attached to my example, it was just one of the > first that came to my mind. Are you suggesting with "I don't think that > this is a serious security issue" that relying on a PID provided by the user > is good enough in the general case? Or were you only relating this to my > example? I think it's reasonable to rely on a pid supplied by the user. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
