[ On Friday, December 24, 1999 at 20:27:01 (+), Dominic Mitchell wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Wmmon under FreeBSD
>
> Under modern BSD4.4, the preferred method is using sysctl(3),(8), as
> opposed to kernfs.
That's not completely true and misses the bigger picture entirely.
Acco
>> I should like to know why more apps don't require the *bsd
>> {proc,kern}fs interface.
Near as I can figure, it goes like this:
Nobody mounts them because nobody uses them.
Nobody uses them because they're never mounted.
> Under modern BSD4.4, the preferred method is using s
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 03:35:34PM -0500, Ajax wrote:
> An alternative solution would be to read such information from kernfs,
> usually (although optionally) mounted at /kern. kernfs is the *bsd
> equivalent to many of the files in linux's /proc. This would, of
> course, require the app to be r
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Steve Reid wrote:
>Wmmon is a popular program for monitoring CPU load and other system
>utilization. It runs as a dockapp under WindowMaker.
>
>The FreeBSD version of this program has a feature that can be trivially
>exploited to gain group kmem in recent installs, or user ro
Wmmon is a popular program for monitoring CPU load and other system
utilization. It runs as a dockapp under WindowMaker.
The FreeBSD version of this program has a feature that can be trivially
exploited to gain group kmem in recent installs, or user root in really
old installs. This affects the F
