Re: ktrace: Following symlinks

2017-07-04 Thread Klemens Nanni
regard to making ktrace following symlinks again, however I don't quite understand what problems may occur when doing so. May anyone enlighten me on this? IMHO, it makes more sense to add fktrace(2) aka NetBSD where an open fd is passed in. To have a more generic interface? Yes. ktra

Re: ktrace: Following symlinks

2017-06-29 Thread Philip Guenther
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Klemens Nanni wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:50:25PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Klemens Nanni wrote: >>> >>> So I just wrapped my head around vfs(9) with regard to making ktrace >

Re: ktrace: Following symlinks

2017-06-29 Thread Klemens Nanni
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:50:25PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Klemens Nanni wrote: So I just wrapped my head around vfs(9) with regard to making ktrace following symlinks again, however I don't quite understand what problems may occur when doing so

Re: ktrace: Following symlinks

2017-06-29 Thread Philip Guenther
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Klemens Nanni wrote: > So I just wrapped my head around vfs(9) with regard to making ktrace > following symlinks again, however I don't quite understand what problems > may occur when doing so. May anyone enlighten me on this? IMHO, it makes mor

ktrace: Following symlinks

2017-06-22 Thread Klemens Nanni
So I just wrapped my head around vfs(9) with regard to making ktrace following symlinks again, however I don't quite understand what problems may occur when doing so. May anyone enlighten me on this? This feature was explicitly disabled 17 years ago[1] appearently because FreeBSD did so[2]