In-kernel pfexec implementation. [PSARC/2009/377 FastTrack timeout 07/10/2009]

[Joerg Schilling]

Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote:

>
>
> >If you call this a bug, when will the documentation (best practice) bug from
> >Indiana be fixed that is based on manually calling pfexec?
>
> I don't see a relation between the two.  I'm not responsible for abuse of 
> pfexec; we could remove pfexec with this case but I have decided not to do 
> that.

Then let me try to start the discussion in a different way.

If you believe that implementing a way to switch the pfexec state in a shell 
on/off while the shell is running, then the whole pfexec concept contains a bug.

This may be very easy be verified:

You can always call one of the /bin/pf*sh* and get the pfexec feature enabled 
and you could terminate this shell whenever you like. 

So implementing a way to switch on/off the pfexec feature in a running shell 
just does the same in a more convenient way.

Jörg

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