Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:27:32 -0000 (GMT) | From | Simon Kenyon <> | Subject | Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #2839 |
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> The sendmail solution (kludge? at least on Linux :) requires write access to > /dev/kmem which only > root can do. It would be a lot cleaner if you could indeed modify the cmdline > via the /proc > filesystem. I really like the idea, especially when programming with threads; ps > should be more > useful if you could easily "rename" threads without root privileges. It sure > beats seeing 20 ps > entries with the original command line..
in 4.2bsd (at least) the environment is/was writable, so a proc can overwrite its command line arguments to achieve the same effect. is this not how sendmail does it? -- simon
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