Re: libkvm usage on FreeBSD
Mark Johnston <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:44:39 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.net-snmp.devel |
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| Message-ID | <ZhqaV5DH58gdY4of@nuc> |
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 03:51:51PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 4/12/24 7:29 AM, Mark Johnston wrote: > > Do you mean that on FreeBSD we should always perform an unprivileged > > kvm_openfile() call, no matter whether --without-kmem-usage is > > specified? > > Yes, that's what I'm proposing. If someone disagrees, please share your > opinion now. I can't see any reason not to go ahead with that, for what it's worth. I'm confident that none of the existing code in net-snmp needs /dev/kmem access on FreeBSD, and it shouldn't be required by new code.