5.2-RELEASE TODO

[Tim Robbins]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:00:13AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:

>    |---------------------+----------+-----------------+---------------------|
>    |                     |          |                 | Almost all process  |
>    |                     |          |                 | debugging tools     |
>    |                     |          |                 | have been updated   |
>    |                     |          |                 | to use non-procfs   |
>    |                     |          |                 | kernel primitives,  |
>    |                     |          |                 | with the exception  |
>    |                     |          |                 | of truss(1). As     |
>    |                     |          |                 | procfs is           |
>    |                     |          |                 | considered          |
>    |                     |          |                 | deprecated due to   |
>    | truss support for   | In       |                 | its inherent        |
>    | ptrace              | progress | Robert Drehmel  | security risks, it  |
>    |                     |          |                 | is highly desirable |
>    |                     |          |                 | to update truss to  |
>    |                     |          |                 | operate in a        |
>    |                     |          |                 | post-procfs world.  |
>    |                     |          |                 | Dag-Erling Smorgrav |
>    |                     |          |                 | had prototype       |
>    |                     |          |                 | patches;            |
>    |                     |          |                 | Robert Drehmel is   |
>    |                     |          |                 | developing and      |
>    |                     |          |                 | testing patches     |
>    |                     |          |                 | now.                |
>    |---------------------+----------+-----------------+---------------------|

gcore also uses procfs. Converting it to use something else (libkvm or perhaps
ptrace) won't be straightforward.


Tim