From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Feb 9 0: 5:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7209737B405 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 00:05:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id g1984xD26126; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 03:05:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 03:04:58 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: Daniel Eischen , Dan Eischen , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getsetcontext system call In-Reply-To: <20020207063613.C1C9839F1@overcee.wemm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > To be quite honest, I think that's the right thing to do for now, until > it is clear what the "right" thing to do is. ptrace(2) isn't going to > survive KSE unscathed, so perhaps we need an enhanced ptrace interface > at some point that doesn't suffer from this kind of interface fragility. Preferably one that doesn't require procfs, given how hard we've been trying to eliminate it :-). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message