The following reply was made to PR lib/35506; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>,
	YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: lib/35506: ps doesn't work on crash dumps, libkvm doesn't know
     about kauth
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:46:23 +0200

 >  credentials, when copied out of the kernel, should be converted to a
 >  special structure "struct uucred", rather than exposing interface
 >  and kernel internals to userland.
 
 ...and of course, this isn't the issue here. :)
 
 we'll have to think up something for this one. exposing kauth internals
 to userland will force us to maintain binary compat, which kinda beats
 the purpose of making the entire interface opaque.
 
 -e.