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On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 17:25, Roger Luethi wrote: >> I forgot to mention that you can see the remnants of that approach in >> <linux/nproc.h>: I used two bits of the field ID to define per-field >> access restrictions (NPROC_PERM_USER, NPROC_PERM_ROOT). On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:36:53PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Besides the low-security and high-security choices, > I'd like to see a medium-security choice. > low: everybody sees everything > medium: everybody sees something; privileged user sees all > high: must be privileged > This might mean that asking for stuff like EIP and WCHAN > causes you to see fewer processes. > If partial info is returned for a process, I'd like to > also get a bitmap of valid fields. Special "not valid" > values are a pain to deal with. That's an interesting observation. Perhaps the union of the mmu and nommu fields should be nominally reported alongside a bitmap of the useful fields? -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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