From owner-freebsd-security Mon Sep 30 8:21:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EF337B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (office.netstyle.com.ua [213.186.199.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3229043E3B for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:21:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from never@mile.nevermind.kiev.ua) Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (never@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8UFK3mO045005; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:20:04 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from never@mile.nevermind.kiev.ua) Received: (from never@localhost) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8UFJrhN044987; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:19:53 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:19:53 +0300 From: Alexandr Kovalenko To: Duncan Campbell Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, mailman@crypton.pl Subject: Re: kern.ps_showallprocs and procfs Message-ID: <20020930151953.GA44971@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: <200209271254.GAA18796@tagish.taiga.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209271254.GAA18796@tagish.taiga.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, Duncan Campbell! On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:54:08AM -0600, you wrote: > I tend to regard procfs as something of a debugging tool. If > you limit it as is probably necessary to do what you suggest, > its value as a tool becomes degraded. No, I don't think that procfs is debugging tool. It is used by OpenOffice, for example. -- NEVE-RIPE Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message