jk> Yes, but /if/ KTRACE is present, today's code allows you to bypass jk>the lack of read permissions on an executable. That shouldn't be jk>allowed. The current behaviour could be regarded as a security jk>hole actually :).
sef> No more so than core dumps do. Yes, but an application can protect itself from an inadvertent core dump. It can't (today) against being ktrace'd. sef> I vote strongly against this change. Noted, thanks. I will summarize the result of the discussion in a followup to kern/3546. Regards, Koshy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message