Subject: Re: kern/37628 (when using systrace, the kernel crashes)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Jonathan Schleifer <js@webkeks.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/31/2007 16:10:03
The following reply was made to PR kern/37628; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jonathan Schleifer <js@webkeks.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/37628 (when using systrace, the kernel crashes)
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:05:56 +0100

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 ad@netbsd.org wrote:
 
 > Synopsis: when using systrace, the kernel crashes
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: ad@netbsd.org
 > State-Changed-When: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:02:23 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > I'm sorry, but systrace has been removed from NetBSD-current. It was
 > left unmaintained for years, and suffered from a number of serious
 > bugs that rendered it ineffective.
 
 What should be used as an alternative then? In environments where
 security matters, something like systrace is absolutely indispensable.
 
 PS: Sorry, seems like gnats doesn't support GPG-signed messages.
 
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 Jonathan