OpenSolaris

In order to receive system events, a consumer must first call sysevent_bind_handle().
The first thing that function does, though, is

        if (getuid() != 0) {
                errno = EACCES;
                return (NULL);
        }

This appears to be a remnant from before solaris was privilege aware; it needs to be
updated.

N/A

Given that sysevents has been deprecated in favor of general-purpose
event channels (e.g., sysevent_evc_bind()), it seems unlikely this
will be fixed.  However, the same issue also eists with event channels,
as covered by 4791900.
Will event producers, such as devfsadm, be updated to use event channels
as well?  If not, this bug remains important, as the current implementation
forces anyone who wishes to consume the EC_DEV_ADD and EC_DEV_REMOVE events
to be uid 0.