Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:21:31 -0700 From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yet another proc question Message-ID: <199708120421.VAA28536@kithrup.com> References: <199708111532.IAA08173@kithrup.com>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.970811215027.1842A-100000.kithrup.freebsd.security@acp.qiv.com> you write: >Sean, you had mentioned that ps uses /proc. I simply unmounted /proc >and ps, w, etc. seem to work just fine -- at least with the flags I >use all the time. Perhaps you should look again -- no command line arguments are printed. For some people, that is acceptable. For others, it is not. >What practical benefit is there to the proc filesystem on a production >machine? ps. w. truss. Potentially, future versions of debuggers. Oh, well, truss isn't out yet. But it does work; I just checked the changes with my code, it still works.
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