Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 05:35:37 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP! linprocfs going away in 72 hours. Message-ID: <20000418123537.A24141CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 03:51:44 PDT." <38FC3E40.446B9B3D@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > I presume this means that it should remain part of the standard system > but that the source should be moved to /sys/i386/linux? > > as long as it remains part of the system I don't care where it lives.. > It's too massively important to totally drop. Having it as a port was > a losing proposition. The biggest problem is that it re-opens a security hole that was explicitly patched in procfs. Also, the way I see it, the linux procfs should probably only be visible to linux sysvec processes... It would be a damn shame to let /compat/linux/procfs "sneak in" to the expected system requirements for bsd programs so that developers can use the easy way out rather than doing something properly. > Julian Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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