From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 12 10:59:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA07407 for security-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netrail.net (netrail.net [205.215.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA07402 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jonz@localhost) by netrail.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA20911 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:58:01 GMT Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:58:01 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" To: security@freebsd.org Subject: procfs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Since the messages originated here, I thought it'd be least inappropriate to post here... With the recent security issues behind the procfs, and why it's even there has anybody considered a proc daemon that maintained a table of process information, queryable by commands from memory, rather than a pseudo-disk based sortuh thing? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan A. Zdziarski NetRail Incorporated Server Engineering Manager 230 Peachtree St. Suite 500 jonz@netrail.net Atlanta, GA 30303 http://www.netrail.net (888) - NETRAIL -------------------------------------------------------------------------