Re: Patches to get Arla running on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 21:19 +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Tomas Olsson wrote:
> > 1) appl/fs/fs_local.h: would that break `fs nnpfsdeb all`?
> >
[...]
> If I've done (1) correctly then, in practice, it shouldn't change things at 
> all, except that on FreeBSD 7.x and higher, it will use the priv(9) interface 
> to check for privilege rather than suser(9).  While there are plans for 
> further privilege semantic changes, the interface change so far is actually a 
> syntactic change -- the policy remains the same, but information about the 
> check is managed differently, hence the change to the interface.  This is a 
> precursor to more fine-grained privileges in the kernel.
> 
Actually, I was thinking of the userland side; I do hope fs_local.h
isn't included in the kernel things. fs_nnpfsdebug.c seems to rely on
HAVE_XDEBDEV etc, but perhaps that should be changed anyway.

/t