Subject: Re: kern/2352: ident daemon is slow, it should not use /dev/kmem at all
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/11/1996 13:02:03 
>Doesn't this change, as is, cause some programs (e.g. rsh) that always
>open sockets as root to always return `root' to ident queries?  Saving
>the uid at socket creation time doesn't seem correct.

But identd returns root for setuid programs now, so this proposed change
wouldn't affect anything in that regard.

--Ken