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From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: Re: 4.3BSD (all variants!) question about <sys/proc.h> and p_ruid
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 23:56:07 GMT
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terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>In article <1842@lysator.liu.se> pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes:
>>Do all versions of 4.3BSD (and later versions) contain a "p_ruid" member
>>in the 'struct proc' structure? Is it in 386BSD? In BSD/386?
>386BSD has it; every system that makes a distinction between SUID programs
>and programs run by a particular UID has it. In SVR4, it's u_ruid.
Great.
>>Is it only 386BSD that has the kvm_*() routines or is that part in
>>4.4BSD as well? And in BSD/386?
>Uh ...you lost me here -- you mean kern_malloc.c?
No, I _think_ the kvm_*() routines are part of libc.a in 386BSD or something..
(They are used as cover routines when one has a daemon that reads structures
in /dev/kmem, /dev/mem, using nlist information from /vmunix)
>Try:
> cd /sys
> find . -name \*.c -exec grep \^kvm_ {} \; -print
>I don't think it'll show anything for you either.
Umm.. I would if I only had access to a 386BSD system to do it on...
/Peter
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