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