Re: ALQ manual page review

From: Robert Watson (rwatson_at_FreeBSD.ORG)
Date: 05/21/03

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To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>

    On Wed, 21 May 2003, Jeff Roberson wrote:

    > On Tue, 20 May 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote:
    >
    > > Hi gang.
    > >
    > > I have written a manual page for the Asynchronous Logging Queues (ALQ)
    > > facility, available in FreeBSD 5.x. I have been trying to reach Jeff by
    > > various methods of contact (IRC, mail etc) but I have not had a response
    > > from him.
    > >
    > <...>
    > The second sentence in the section describing alq_open() is a little bit
    > confusing. Please considering breaking it up.

    Another thing that probably needs to appear in the man page is that the
    credential associated with the thread invoking alq_open() is the
    credential used to authorize the open(). Right now, alq_open() is invoked
    only by a sysctl handler requiring privilege to invoke, so this is
    fine--but the caller should be aware of this and avoid embaressing
    circumstances (such as using a root privileged thread to open a queue on
    behalf of an unprivileged process, etc).

    Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
    robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories

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