Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:23:31 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: "Daniel B. Hemmerich" <dbh142@psu.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern.ps_showallprocs workaround Message-ID: <20020203112331.C167@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200202031152.GAA26920@webmail3.cac.psu.edu>; from dbh142@psu.edu on Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:52:00AM -0500 References: <200202031152.GAA26920@webmail3.cac.psu.edu>
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:52:00AM -0500, Daniel B. Hemmerich wrote:
> I believe bugs is the correct mailing list to send this sorta issue to. If not,
> oh well, too late.
>
> The goal, I believe, of the sysctl kern.ps_showallprocs variable (setting) is to hide the system processes from the common user, as there is not always a need
> to let users have all that information.
>
> Well, the proc filesystem, procfs, is still wide open with valuable process information for anyone to read. I may just not have found the correct documentation,
> but I did not find anyway to really change this w/o me guessing and possibly
> messing my workstation up.
# umount /proc
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