From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 10 16:37:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59AC437BA00 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 16:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 11 May 2000 00:37:03 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:37:03 +0100 From: David Malone To: Warner Losh Cc: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcore doesn't work? Message-ID: <20000511003703.A9237@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200005101921.NAA94893@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005101921.NAA94893@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:21:34PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:21:34PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message The Hermit Hacker writes: > : Since its part of the system, shouldn't it work? :) > > Yes. The file file ware removed due to security considerations. > Promises were made that procfs would be enhanced to deal with this, > but no code ever was committed. The file file has been restored as a > symbolic link in newer versions of 4.0, so this functionality will > return. It's in newer versions of 5.0 - I don't think it's in 4.0 yet (or atleast it wasn't when I cvsupped this morning). The fix also needs to be merged into the linuxprocfs at some stage. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message