On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote: Y> I looked at the patch. It retrieves file description information through Y> 'sysctl' calls with proprietary keys. Y> Y> Isn't it better architecturally to expose the same information through procfs Y> interface? At least from the filesystem level and up standard tools like ls/cat Y> will be able to show the the same information instead of the specialized utility.
IIRC, procfs interface (and existing procfs implementation in particular) has been mostly dropped due to various privilege escalation vulnerabilities existed in the past. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
