hello, and welcome.
This was
discussed in 2009, prior to its eventual removal in June. Developers who commented said:
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Originally Posted by Philip Guenther
...none of the developers want to touch (procfs)...
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Originally Posted by Ted Unangst
...The OpenBSD implementation of procfs was written/donated to BSD 15 years ago, back when it was still at Berkeley. In OpenBSD, it has barely changed since, and isn't really maintained or supported...
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Originally Posted by Bob Beck
For new applications we do not use it, but prefer to use a properly
designed sysctl or ioctl interface to retrieve information from the kernel.
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Originally Posted by Theo de Raadt
The major reason for moving away from procfs is that there are numerous TOCTOU problems.
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The decision to finally remove it occurred in June, after having it broken in tree for a significant length of time. A query regarding the decision was
posted to @tech