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Date:      Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:24:47 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Yet another proc question 
Message-ID:  <199708120424.VAA23465@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:54:41 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970811215027.1842A-100000@acp.qiv.com> 

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>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.
>
>What practical benefit is there to the proc filesystem on a production
>machine?

   procfs is used to get the command arguments.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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