In article <Pine.NEB.3.96.970814185607.517D-100000@rickb>,
	Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca> writes:
> So the obvious intermediate fix is to take procfs out of your kernel.

Why? Unmounting "/proc" and removing it from "/etc/ftab" ought to be
enough.

> Obviously, removing mount_procfs won't help much.

To use "mount_procfs" you need root privileges. But if you have root
privileges you don't need any security hole to get them.
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