Shawn Walker wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> Darren J Moffat wrote: >>> I think both phases of this project are a very bad idea and I do not >>> approve of the strategy. >>> >>> The Solaris security team did a similar analysis for 'pfexec' vs >>> 'sudo' for almost identical reasons as this case. Like this case we >>> planed to initially ship a symlink pfexec -> sudo and later enhance >>> pfexec with the functionality that sudo had. In the end we choose >>> not to do that because it as more engineering effort, it would never >>> be perfect and there really was no harm in having the real sudo >>> installed on the system. So that strategy was abandoned and now >>> Solaris/OpenSolaris has the real sudo. >>> >>> I strongly suggest that this case be withdrawn and a new case be >>> filed to just ship top. >>> >>> This is is also misnamed there are no prstat enhancements in this >>> case just a confusing symlink from prstat -> top. >>> >>> I'm think that prstat could do with some enhancements but this case >>> didn't actually provide any. >> >> As for me, I'd agree with phase 2, if phase 2 provides near-enough >> approximation of functionality that users are unlikely to notice the >> difference. But phase 1 seems more and more like a terrible idea. > > Phase 1 solves the problem of "I type top and nothing happens."
So we should ship the real top - or maybe a command that says "top not delivered yet use /usr/bin/prstat" -- Darren J Moffat
