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Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 2000 01:04:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/procfs procfs.h procfs_subr.c procfs_vnops.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004230103090.33915-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200004230206.UAA28120@harmony.village.org>

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On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <200004220344.UAA76607@freefall.freebsd.org> Brian Feldman writes:
> : green       2000/04/21 20:44:41 PDT
> :   Welcome back our old friend from procfs, "file"!
> 
> Why?  File was removed for security reasons, no?

You said that it should be implemented as a symbolic link, remember?
The security issue was allowing more access to the executable than
would be allowed by the actual filesystem.

> Warner

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