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... no nmount(), no POSIX RT signals, no "new style" 1990s PTY allocation, no fexecve(), no ACLs, ... But then FreeBSD itself lacks ACLs on tmpfs, EAs on ZFS,

by JdeBP 10y ago

... no nmount(), no POSIX RT signals, no "new style" 1990s PTY allocation, no fexecve(), no ACLs, ... But then FreeBSD itself lacks ACLs on tmpfs, EAs on ZFS, and SO_PEERCRED; and moreover OpenBSD does have wscons.

floatboth 10y ago
No fexecve?! OMG. Yeah, SO_PEERCRED, I remember that one. The sway Wayland compositor relies on it to authenticate privileged programs (desktop bars, screensavers, screenshot tools etc.) When I was porting sway, that really annoyed me. What are EAs?