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SubjectRe: procfs permissions on 2.6.x
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On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 00:25, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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.
We wouldn't need that feature if mods are accurately defined from the
beginning (ie at creation) at that's already the case AFAICS.

FabF

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