On Aug 17, 2006, at 2:54 AM, Elad Efrat wrote:

> hi,
>
> i think that in the long-term we should be deprecating this flag that
> we set whenever a "superuser" check is made. i'm not sure why it's
> needed at all, and this has a precedence with freebsd (in 2001).
>
> moreover, it's gonna be impossible to keep it once netbsd moves to
> fine-grained kauth(9) requests.
>
> what i suggest is keeping the flag itself for backwards compat., but
> not setting it anywhere.

I'm all for just getting rid of it, period.

>
> -e.
>
> -- 
> Elad Efrat

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