Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 09:47:22 -0600 From: Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net> To: Eric Badger <eric@badgerio.us>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procfs ctl interface Message-ID: <f3d29c53-b947-21a9-769e-e1098039f606@vangyzen.net> In-Reply-To: <451312a7-9ae9-c5a1-4153-2268039c5942@badgerio.us> References: <451312a7-9ae9-c5a1-4153-2268039c5942@badgerio.us>
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On 02/24/2017 19:43, Eric Badger wrote: > I started working on a change that will perturb procfs' ctl interface to some > degree. In looking closer at procfs, it seems like it has been pretty well > broken for use as a debugging interface since at least 9.3 (the oldest system I > have handy). Is there any reason to maintain this interface at all? If anything, > it should perhaps be made into an alternate front end for ptrace() rather than > being entirely separate, but I'm not sure I see the value in that. As I recall, the last in-tree consumer was gcore, but attilio@ switched it to ptrace in r199805. If nobody mentions a significant consumer, garbage-collecting it sounds good to me. Eric
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