Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:38:36 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Aaron Smith <aaron@veritas.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pstat -T broken? Message-ID: <199707220138.SAA08759@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:41:13 PDT." <m0wqT0t-000iabC@megami.veritas.com>
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>i synced (with current) and made world today, and happened to notice that >'pstat -T' fails and complains about KERN_VNODE being undefined. anyone >else have this problem, or is it something with my config? I had to comment out support for that sysctl due to design problems with it resulting in systemn crashes. Sysctl just isn't up to passing potentially 10's of megabytes back to user processes. Further, there is also a significant security concern with providing so much information about all of the open files in the system. The information provided by pstat -T can be had via sysctl(8) and pstat -s. pstat -T should probably be nuked entirely or changed to use other mechanisms to get the information. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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