From owner-cvs-all Tue Jul 4 23: 7: 7 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 783E937B71B; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:06:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA08241; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007050614.XAA08241@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Warner Losh Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh sshd.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jul 2000 23:55:14 MDT." <200007050555.XAA37652@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 23:14:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message