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From: Robert Watson (rwatsonfreebsd.org)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 06:44:24 CST

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    On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

    > * Oleg Cherkasov <Oleg.Cherkasovmail.com> [011203 03:16] wrote:
    > >
    > > Think a new key 'malloc.random' for sysctl could be more useful, protected
    > > with 'kern.securelevel' > 1.
    >
    > However, malloc(3) has nothing to do with the kernel.

    Yeah, I'm not sure why it would be keyed off of 'securelevel'. Seems to
    me that we should avoid any more userland cruft being associated
    unnecessarily with securelevels, actually :-).

    And if we do stuff this in a securelevel, it sounds like we need a
    userland.<applicationname> sysctl namespace. More likely, we just need
    this to be a flag on /etc/malloc.conf.

    Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
    robertfledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services

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