procfs ctl interface

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Eric Badger <eric at badgerio.us> writes:
> I started working on a change that will perturb procfs' ctl interface
> to some degree. In looking closer at procfs, it seems like it has been
> pretty well broken for use as a debugging interface since at least 9.3
> (the oldest system I have handy). Is there any reason to maintain this
> interface at all? If anything, it should perhaps be made into an
> alternate front end for ptrace() rather than being entirely separate,
> but I'm not sure I see the value in that.

If it's unused, go for it.  It is an abomination.  So is ptrace, but
we're stuck with it until someone comes up with something better.  I
have tried and failed twice.

DES
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