svn commit: r232181 - in head/sys: kern sys

[Mikolaj Golub]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:28:11 +0100 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

 PJD> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 02:25:48PM +0000, Mikolaj Golub wrote:
 >> Author: trociny
 >> Date: Sun Feb 26 14:25:48 2012
 >> New Revision: 232181
 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/232181
 >> 
 >> Log:
 >>   Add sysctl to retrieve or set umask of another process.

 PJD> "set umask of another process"? This seems... weird. What's the purpose
 PJD> of this change?

When we were discussing this with Kostik and Robert, and I asked if it could
be useful to have the sysctl rw, Kostik described a real situation when he had
had to change umask of another process: umask had not been set properly on an
aplication start but it could not be restarted until the end of the day.
Kostik was able to fix it using gdb but having an easier way looked useful.

-- 
Mikolaj Golub