Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:29:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20020423222834.O66402-100000@master.gorean.org> In-Reply-To: <200204230005.g3N05mj86326@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> obrien 2002/04/22 17:05:48 PDT
>
> Modified files:
> etc rc
> Log:
> Do not use 'ps -e' for entropy gathering. It uses /proc/*/mem to rummage
> around *user* memory to extract the environment variable strings. This
> is problematic for us.
I have no objection to this commit per se, but I wish someone had
discussed it with me, if for no other reason, for my own education. Can
you please let me know exactly what the problem is?
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