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Date:      Tue, 04 Jul 2000 23:14:14 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh sshd.c 
Message-ID:  <200007050614.XAA08241@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jul 2000 23:55:14 MDT." <200007050555.XAA37652@harmony.village.org> 

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> In message <200007042117.OAA05458@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mike Smith writes:
> : > I have a continuing strong objection to the presence
> : > of "file" in /proc in the first place, as I don't feel it substantially
> : > contributes to useful functionality in /proc.
> : 
> : ?? That's nonsense.  It provides a useful piece of information (the image 
> : file backing a process' text/data) that is not available anywhere else.
> 
> Except it is a security hole when it was the vnode...  I like file
> being there since it makes gcore work again :-)

I think it's pretty clear that the feature needs to be secure, however 
now that it is, I can't see any reason for deprecating it.

-- 
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]




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