On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:59:44PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
[snip]
> In FreeBSD 5.0, all this information is exported from the kernel using the
> sysctl() interface, which provides much more information gating, and
> flexibe policy controls. This exists in part in 4.x, but not completely.
> In 5.0, ps requires no special privilege, and access control is done
> entirely in the kernel.
I think I'm missing something here.
$ uname -r
4.5-RELEASE
$ ls -l /bin/ps
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 213796 Jan 30 14:30 /bin/ps
ps(1) has no special privileges in 4.x, but I may not understand what
you mean by "special privileges?" (To me it means s{u,g}id.)
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