Re: kern.ps_showallprocs and procfs

From: Duncan Campbell (campbell@tagish.taiga.ca)
Date: 09/27/02 

Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 06:54:08 -0600
From: Duncan Campbell <campbell@tagish.taiga.ca>
To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, mailman@crypton.pl

I tend to regard procfs as something of a debugging tool. If
you limit it as is probably necessary to do what you suggest,
its value as a tool becomes degraded.

Duihb

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