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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:20:25 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>, Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PATCH for testing 
Message-ID:  <199911190120.SAA29399@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:04:20 PST." <199911190104.RAA88682@apollo.backplane.com> 
References:  <199911190104.RAA88682@apollo.backplane.com>  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911172341110.397-100000@localhost> <199911181924.MAA27434@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <199911190104.RAA88682@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes:
:     I am all for removing -e, but I don't really like the idea of making
:     it optional nor do I like the idea of trying to maintain the capability
:     for the user's own processes - that simply makes the code even more
:     complex then it already is.  The danger is that the option exists in
:     the first place.

I'm not for removing -e.  It is useful to root for debugging.  If ps
can get this info from procfs, procfs could effectively enforce this
restriction. 

Warner


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