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To: Raul Zighelboim <mango@staff.communique.net>
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Subject: Re: procfs hole (fwd) 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:22:13 -0700
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>What are the pro/cons of having a /procfs mounted ?

   Procfs is used by ps(8) and w(1) to provide the command arguments. It is
also used by the debugger, gdb.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project