Date: 14 Dec 2000 12:36:27 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: retiring kernfs Message-ID: <xzp7l53z138.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:18:32 -0800" References: <xzpvgsol36m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20001213151832.A84135@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 05:02:41PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Any serious objections to retiring the (long obsolete) kernfs > > pseudo-file system? > Can you give a reason for your wanting to remove something that compiles > and works? It's superfluous (all the information it provides is available through sysctl(8)), deprecated (sources with better memory than me tell me that it's been recommended against since 2.1.0), and a potential security hole as it hasn't been maintained since 1996 (except for being kept compilable across kernel API changes), and I can practically guarantee (without inspecting the source code) that it does Very Wrong Things with e.g. prisons. Oh, and nobody uses it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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