o Old-style K&R declarations have been converted to new C89 style
o register has been removed
o prototype for main() has been removed (gcc3 makes it an error)
o int main(int argc, char *argv[]) is the preferred main definition.
o Attempt to not break style(9) conformance for declarations more than
they already are.
Use /dev/null for opening the kvm library, we don't need access to /dev/mem
anymore.
ps can now run without the setgid(kmem) bit. If it does it will not be
able to show argv/envp for another uid's processes unless you are root.
VM structure (eg: credentials etc) and it's highly unlikely we'll ever
get to see the "tainted" BSD<=4.3 VM code in public use. Although it
indicated the way some things used to be done, it obfuscates things too
much.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.