From owner-cvs-all Sat Apr 22 22: 4:24 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D2A37B7CD; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 22:04:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 01:04:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Warner Losh Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/procfs procfs.h procfs_subr.c procfs_vnops.c In-Reply-To: <200004230206.UAA28120@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200004220344.UAA76607@freefall.freebsd.org> Brian Feldman writes: > : green 2000/04/21 20:44:41 PDT > : Welcome back our old friend from procfs, "file"! > > Why? File was removed for security reasons, no? You said that it should be implemented as a symbolic link, remember? The security issue was allowing more access to the executable than would be allowed by the actual filesystem. > Warner -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message