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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:42:06 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP! linprocfs going away in 72 hours. 
Message-ID:  <200004181642.JAA02765@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:50:45 PDT." <38FC762C.FF6D5DF@elischer.org> 

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> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Fully agreement here, and that was also what the core decision said:
> > only visible to processed run under the linuxolator.
> 
> This sounds like a very poor decision to me..
> It doesn't help the security issue at all and it
> makes it more difficult to find out what is going on and
> debug problems. This sounds more like a personal NIH problem
> than a technical decision.
> 
> A case of someone's bruised ego or something.

It's already been resolved that having it in /compat/linux qualifies as 
good enough 'hiding'; we don't need to go down this again.
-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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