Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:12:39 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procfs Message-ID: <19970813121239.25438@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970812135550.20492C-100000@netrail.net>; from Jonathan A. Zdziarski on Tue, Aug 12, 1997 at 01:58:01PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970812135550.20492C-100000@netrail.net>
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Jonathan A. Zdziarski writes:
>
> 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?
As someone else said, it's a UNIX thing. Just like /dev/*, and
hopefully one day portal_fs.
Also, having a daemon like thing serving requests gives me a creepy
feeling of Microsoftitis (then again, that's also a UNIX thing :-)
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-- Phil
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