From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 14 3:36:36 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 03:36:31 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719BC37B400 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:36:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA71424; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:36:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: retiring kernfs References: <20001213151832.A84135@dragon.nuxi.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 Dec 2000 12:36:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:18:32 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" 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