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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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