Tab completion in OpenBSD's ksh

Re:Tab completion in OpenBSD's ksh by stock_toaster on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:48PM (#14250422)

Is there much benefit from pledging a shell?

I thought a fork/exec (seems like a core requirement for a shell) didn't inherit the pledge from the parent?

  > promise: exec
  > Allows a process to call execve(2). Coupled with the proc promise,
  > this allows a process to fork and execute another program. The new
  > program starts running without pledge active and hopefully makes
  > a new pledge()
  > -- openbsd pledge(2) manpage

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Re:Tab completion in OpenBSD's ksh by brynet on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:07PM (#14250606)

Of course, it's a shell. Shells need to execute other programs, but the shell itself doesn't need to open sockets, or use random ioctl calls, or other privileged things.

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Re:Tab completion in OpenBSD's ksh by wink on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:12PM (#14268332)

Hey, sockets in bash are a feature ;)

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