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From:
Benjamin Lee McQueen <mcq@disroot.org>
Subject:
trivial pledge for arch(1)
To:
Tech <tech@openbsd.org>
Date:
Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:32:45 +0100

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hello tech@

i've brought this up on misc@ and the consensus seemed to be that nobody

discourages trivially pledging arch(1), but is not needed or a priority.

here is the diff either way:

--- arch.c.orig 2026-02-11 17:25:20.407984208 +0000
+++ arch.c      2026-02-11 17:27:02.503983152 +0000
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>
  #include <string.h>
+#include <err.h>
  #include <unistd.h>

  static void __dead usage(void);
@@ -68,6 +69,9 @@
         if (optind != argc)
                 usage();

+       if (pledge("stdio, NULL") == -1)
+               err(1, pledge);
+
         printf("%s%s\n", short_form ? "" : "OpenBSD.", arch);
         return (0);
  }