From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 18 9:35:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-193-112-57.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.112.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5353437B68D for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:35:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02765; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:42:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200004181642.JAA02765@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP! linprocfs going away in 72 hours. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:50:45 PDT." <38FC762C.FF6D5DF@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:42:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message