Re: Sendmail on installer CD

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:17:24PM +0100, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >    I suppose we could, but procfs isn't all that invasive.  Doesn't gdb
> >    need it?  It could be useful.

There are some cases where kvm needs it to read argument lists
> PAGESIZE (?). That was on my list of things to fix :)
For normal debugging, gdb does not need it.

> >
> >					-Matt
> >					Matthew Dillon 
> >					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 	GDB needs I think, and I am pretty truss requires it too.  It doesn't
> 	hurt to keep it on the Live CD for diagnosing issues.

/me whispers ktrace.

My reasoning is that procfs is not needed for normal operation and
has a record of security problems.

Joerg