Re: pkg/50487: Update sysutils/lsof to version 4.88 (changes attached)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50487; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/50487: Update sysutils/lsof to version 4.88 (changes
 attached)
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 13:54:52 +0100

 On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 03:50:00AM +0000, dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost wrote:
 > Reduced to 50 the number of open file descriptors lsof
 > attempts to close while trying to protect itself from a
 > file descriptor exec() attack.  This limits the overhead
 > lsof incurs on systems that have large file descriptor
 > limits, yet provides sufficient open descriptors for the
 > library functions lsof calls.
 
 Of course, it would help if they actually used closefrom(2) or friends
 on systems where it exists...
 
 Joerg