Re: sysutils/lsof stopped working for non-root user

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <CAG0OUxgnv9uYDBZMeYm_WTg8wPm=BVvr5A67bOZgVJeKw9ZiYw%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Chavdar Ivanov  <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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>Hi,
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>On amd64 -current from yesterday the latest lsof returns immediately if
>invoked by non-root user. I am sure it worked a few weeks ago. It works ok
>for the root.
>
>ktruss /usr/pkg/sbin/lsof
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>returns only:
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>fcntl(0x4, 0x3, 0)                = 4194305
>emul(netbsd)
>fcntl(0x4, 0x4, 0x400001) = 0
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>Seeing it is installed setgid kmem, I added myself to the group, no effect.
>
>lsof was rebuilt once more just in case.
>
>Is this some new security measure or a fallout?

I think this is part of maxv@ changes to hide pointers from userland.

christos