Re: [PATCH] 2.5 PROPOSAL: Replacement for current /proc of shit.

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sat, 03 Nov 2001 00:55:04 +1100

On Fri, 02 Nov 2001 13:39:29 +0100,
Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com> wrote:
>Bull shit. Standard policy is currently to keep crude old
>interfaces until no end of time. Here are some examples:
>...
>/proc/ksyms - this is duplicating a system call (and making stuff easier
>for intrusors)

Anybody can issue syscall query_module. Removing /proc/ksyms just
forces users to run an executable or Perl syscall(). You have not
improved security and you have made it harder to report and diagnose
problems.

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