Re: Semantics of "seteuid(uid)" vs. "setreuid(-1,uid)"

2004-06-10 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2004-06-07 01:30 -0700, David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004, Stefan Eer wrote: > > Any reason, that there is a difference in semantics between: > > > > seteuid(id) vs. setreuid(-1, id)??? > > > > The tests performed on the arguments are different

Semantics of "seteuid(uid)" vs. "setreuid(-1,uid)"

2004-06-06 Thread Stefan Eßer
Any reason, that there is a difference in semantics between: seteuid(id) vs. setreuid(-1, id)??? The tests performed on the arguments are different (assuming a fixed arg of -1 for ruid) in that seteuid does not support the case of (euid == cr_uid): seteuid(euid):

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2004-01-09 11:38 -0600, Sean Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I admit to having not tried it, but I wonder how well OpenCM > (http://www.opencm.org/) would compare. I think it would have a smaller > footprint than Subversion. I have prepared a port of OpenCM, but didn't have time to test it

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-24 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2003-11-24 12:20 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Eßer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ok. I've also thought some about this, and I think that different media > > might need different methods (i.e. MFM vs. RLL vs. PRML, but also vs.

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-24 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2003-11-23 10:11 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Encrypting data and secure removal of data are orthogonal and in case > > you need one, the other propbably won't be a good choice. > > Both are completely adequate to protect the data on the disk from > disclosure. Yes, if eff

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-24 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2003-11-23 18:04 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Look for BIO_DELETE in the kernel. Seems that BIO_DELETE isn't really supported anymore (according to a comment in your GEOM sources ;-) AFAICT, BIO_DELETE can't easily be made a long running operation (taking tens of

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-24 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2003-11-23 17:31 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Eßer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What I'm suggesting is to have the obliteration implemented as an > > add on to the dirty buffer flush, with the difference that the > > bu

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2003-11-23 00:19 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 22 November 2003 02:54 am, Stefan Eßer wrote: > > On 2003-11-22 11:04 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Stefan Eßer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2003-11-23 00:16 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 November 2003 03:56 pm, Stefan Eßer wrote: > > A simple algorithm could just mark each buffer with a special > > kind of dirty flag and a counter for the pass number (in fact, > > the existi

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-22 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2003-11-22 11:04 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Eßer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I may be way off, but I do not think, that a special thread or > > a cache flush after each block is required: [...] > > What happens if you

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-21 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2003-11-21 14:09 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for performance, you really need to flush the on-device cache on each > pass to make sure the bit patterns get written to the platter in proper > order. I don't see any clever way to coalesce the writing of the > various patt

Re: md5(1) exit code

2003-10-12 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2003-10-12 16:50 +0100, Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or rather, lack thereof. I was rather astonished to find that `md5 > /nonexistant` printed an error message but still returned an exit code of > zero; this is, of course, due to the use of warn() instead of err() in > resp

Re: Broadcom 440x support?

2003-02-22 Thread Stefan Eßer
There are Linux drivers available for download and it seems, that the 440x and 520x drivers are very similar. I intended to make the bge driver support the 440x in my ASUS A7K8X, but have not had time to actually start that project (beyond the initial diff of the two official drivers.) If anybody