Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 17:27:59 -0400 (EDT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Brian Mitchell <brian@firehouse.net> Cc: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>, bugtraq@netspace.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procfs hole Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970811172705.4290A-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970810143501.19099B-100000@shell.firehouse.net>
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On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Brian Mitchell wrote: > any setuid program. As noted, the easiest way to avoid the problem is just > to disable procfs -- nobody really uses it anyways. Would anyone be willing to give a short explanation of the /proc filesystem and what the original conception of it accomplished? Thanks, Charles
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