From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 22 14:34:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C9A37B401; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:34:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71A743E4A; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0236.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.236] helo=mindspring.com) by grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18FMNS-0003QL-00; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:34:22 -0800 Message-ID: <3DDEB09F.B0D42B79@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:33:03 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson Cc: Dhee Reddy , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No entries in /proc :: feature or problem ?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson wrote: > (2) truss currently relies on procfs, albeit not working very well. There > were a set of patches floating around to make truss use ptrace(), > which is the direction we probably do want to take this. If someone > could finish up that work, it would be great. > > The reasons to deprecate procfs are many-fold -- not least that there are > existing interfaces in the kernel that provide most or all of its features > at a substantially lower risk. You just have to see the kernel-related > security advisories for FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc, over the last five > years to understand why we want to turn it off if we can. :-) It would be nice if a condition of turning it off were a working truss. A priori. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message