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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>,
	Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>,
	Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: getsetcontext system call 
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ptrace doesn't use procfs as it is...


On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Robert Watson wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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