20 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-archRe: short uid/gid| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Vladimir B. Grebenschikov,Moscow,408-7227,123-4567,Some-info | Oct 14, 2002 12:33 am | |
| Robert Watson | Oct 14, 2002 10:27 am | |
| Maxim Sobolev | Oct 14, 2002 12:17 pm | |
| Danny J. Zerkel | Oct 15, 2002 7:47 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Oct 15, 2002 9:35 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Oct 15, 2002 9:42 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Oct 16, 2002 2:03 am | |
| Maxim Sobolev | Oct 16, 2002 2:30 am | |
| Robert Watson | Oct 16, 2002 6:03 am | |
| Maxim Sobolev | Oct 16, 2002 8:06 am | |
| Robert Watson | Oct 16, 2002 9:06 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Oct 16, 2002 9:29 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Oct 16, 2002 9:45 am | |
| Robert Watson | Oct 16, 2002 10:01 am | |
| Gary Thorpe | Oct 16, 2002 10:38 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Oct 16, 2002 11:02 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Oct 16, 2002 11:13 am | |
| Danny J. Zerkel | Oct 16, 2002 4:50 pm | |
| Danny J. Zerkel | Oct 16, 2002 8:44 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Oct 16, 2002 11:06 pm |
| Subject: | Re: short uid/gid | |
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| From: | Robert Watson (rwat...@FreeBSD.ORG) | |
| Date: | Oct 16, 2002 6:03:25 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-arch | |
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
What about source-level compatibility, which IMO is a good thing, at least if it doesn't add too much complexity (it clearly doesn't in this case)? Also, handling single flag should be easier from the coding perspective than a load of new values, after all we can do something like:
I'm not convinced there's any value to providing the backward compatibility that has to be asked for: the only benefit to the current short-based API is that it allow serious security holes while not following the standard API offered by other platforms (except Linux). Freshly compiled applications should be using the proper types to represent uid's and gid's -- if they're not doing that in the existing code, they'll get truncated to the right size for "bug compatibility". If they are using the correct size, they'll work correctly. To be able to run properly on other platforms (vis Solaris), they already should be using those types.
And it's not like the approach you've described makes it any easier to implement: you still have to break out the old and new structures since changing ipc_perm breaks the ABI for all of the System V interfaces, rewrite the kernel code, etc. You might as well have added the compatibility system calls since you still have to do all the mapping.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects rob...@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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