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From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
To: Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>
cc: tech-security@netbsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Foward: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:19.semconfig 
In-Reply-To: Message from Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp> 
   of "Sat, 27 May 2000 08:29:18 +0900." <200005262329.e4QNTJ601708@edge.sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp> 
Reply-to: sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 19:57:21 -0400

the advisory is misleading, if not actually incorrect.

on netbsd, the worst that happens is that other processes *which
actively hold semaphores locked* will be blocked from exiting.

Given that a vanishingly small number of programs actually use
semaphores, this dramatically reduces the impact of this problem.

				- Bill