Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: procfs permissions on 2.6.x | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Mon, 05 Jul 2004 00:25:49 +0200 |
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viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk writes: > > Why on the earth do we ever want to allow chown/chmod on procfs in the first > place?
It's useful to stop other people from reading your environment or command line.
-Andi
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