Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:33:03 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Dhee Reddy <dhee@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No entries in /proc :: feature or problem ?? Message-ID: <3DDEB09F.B0D42B79@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021122083000.81249U-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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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
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