Re: Competition
David Laight <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.advocacy |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> > One thing that I somewhat miss is systrace, however. kauth is nice but > it's also quite different; it was easy to configure per-application > profiles with systrace without the need for kernel hacking. I > understand that with our limited resources and its problematic pre-SMP > design it was no longer ideal and couldn't be fixed easily, though. systrace was removed because it is far too easy for a program to circumvent the policy, this has probably always been true. The interface itself could have been used for a system call trace (like solaris truss), but it isn't a good idea to use it to enforce security. David -- David Laight: [email protected]