I can see moving it out to where the rest of the linux emulation
code is but to remove it entirely seems the typical viking axe
^^ ^^
bloody-minded behaviour that's getting too familiar.
I agree with those sentiments.
From my
Some time ago -core requested that linprocfs should move into the linuxulator.
Nothing has happend on that account, so -core is now forced to take action.
This is the announcement that linprocfs will be removed from the -current
tree in 72 hours, giving the involved parties a final deadline
I presume this means that it should remain part of the standard system
but that the source should be moved to /sys/i386/linux?
as long as it remains part of the system I don't care where it lives..
It's too massively important to totally drop. Having it as a port was
a losing proposition.
Julian Elischer wrote:
I presume this means that it should remain part of the standard system
but that the source should be moved to /sys/i386/linux?
as long as it remains part of the system I don't care where it lives..
It's too massively important to totally drop. Having it as a port was
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Wemm writes
:
Julian Elischer wrote:
I presume this means that it should remain part of the standard system
but that the source should be moved to /sys/i386/linux?
as long as it remains part of the system I don't care where it lives..
It's too massively
Peter Wemm wrote:
The biggest problem is that it re-opens a security hole that
was explicitly patched in procfs.
then look at the hole, don't remove it.
That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater..
It's a godsend when trying to run Linux binaries.
Also, the way I see it, the linux
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
Fully agreement here, and that was also what the core decision said:
only visible to processed run under the linuxolator.
This sounds like a very poor decision to me..
It doesn't help the security issue at all and it
makes it more difficult to find out what is going
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
Fully agreement here, and that was also what the core decision said:
only visible to processed run under the linuxolator.
This sounds like a very poor decision to me..
It doesn't help the security issue at all and it
makes it more difficult to find out what
