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Authored by ngie on Apr 3 2019, 4:01 AM.
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Summary

Remove references to pdwait4(2) and CAP_PDWAIT from rights(4)

@cem removed references to pdwait4(2) (a nonexistent syscall) in
r320058.

This change removes references to pdwait4(2) and CAP_PDWAIT in
rights(4) to not mislead the user into thinking that pdwait4(2)/CAP_PDWAIT is
actually implemented in the stock FreeBSD kernel.

The goal of this functionality was to simplify monitoring/manipulating
processes started with pdfork, et al, and avoid races with waiting on pids.
The syscall was never completed though--just discussed on the capsicum mailing
list back in 2015:
https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/cl-capsicum-discuss/2015-May/msg00012.html
. That being said, there are members of the project (@rwatson, etc) who
have longterm goals to implement this syscall to better secure pdfork(2)
calls.

PR: 235871
Discussed with: rwatson

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ngie added subscribers: manpages, capsicum.
This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.Apr 9 2019, 4:35 PM
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