EOF and removal of auditconfig -[gs]etfsize [PSARC/2007/701 FastTrack timeout 01/09/2008]

[James Carlson]

Gary Winiger writes:
> I'm sponsoring this case for Paul Roberts and the Audit Project team.
> It incompatibly modifies the Evolving auditconfig(1M) and Committed
> auditon(2) interfaces to reflect the present implementation.
> It requests a Patch release binding and permission to remove the
> non-functioning interfaces in a patch even if the replacement functionality
> is not present in the same Patch.

It'd help a bit to have an evaluation in CR 6185615; I'm missing some
background in reading this case.

Why not make auditconfig set the new p_fsize parameter in response to
the -setfsize keyword, or alternatively have audit_binfile read the
parameter on start-up from some common location into which -setfsize
writes?  I assume there's some sort of timing problem involved, but
I'm not sure what it is.

It seems a little odd that our response to a broken public interface,
with three external customers filing service requests plus internal
reports of trouble, and with three escalations, would be to document
the brokenness in a patch.

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