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Re: Removal of some KAUTH_GENERIC_ISSUSER (pass 1)



On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 04:46:34AM +0300, Elad Efrat wrote:
>
>>   - KAUTH_MACHDEP_CACHEFLUSH_ALL, for checking if the whole CPU cache
>>     can be flushed (used in compat code only).
>
> Is there a reason for _ALL (so specific)?

Sure: the code where I use this allows flushing the "data" and
"instruction" caches as well, and makes a distinction about "all".

> +               /*
> +                * According to SCO documentation, this is the startup process
> +                * trying to remount the root file-system


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