Robert Watson wrote: > (2) truss currently relies on procfs, albeit not working very well. There > were a set of patches floating around to make truss use ptrace(), > which is the direction we probably do want to take this. If someone > could finish up that work, it would be great. > > The reasons to deprecate procfs are many-fold -- not least that there are > existing interfaces in the kernel that provide most or all of its features > at a substantially lower risk. You just have to see the kernel-related > security advisories for FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc, over the last five > years to understand why we want to turn it off if we can. :-)
It would be nice if a condition of turning it off were a working truss. A priori. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
