1.1

On 21-03-2008 10:20:45 +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> Hi List.
> 
> I've just removed the code to check for euid when running services and
> instead relying on permissions of the service state dir and testing
> errno. This is a good thing, but it does have one side effect.
> 
> OpenRC can track daemons by how they were started. So every time you
> run rc-status it tests each reported service to ensure all daemons are
> up.  This also works fine unprivileged on normal boxes - except for
> hardened where users can only see their own processes.

Assuming you would use libkvm, on Darwin this means as unprivileged user
(not using suid) you can't see any processes at all.

> This isn't really an easy answer, as we could have installed OpenRC in a 
> prefix where this wouldn't apply, but we don't know that either.
> 
> Ideas anyone?

Is there a way to just have some fallback method which is less
functional, but just uses some pid file with a lock or something?


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