Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:53:33 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] getrusage sucks |
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* David Wagner (daw@cs.berkeley.edu) wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: > >It's already available via /proc w/out protection. And ditto via posix > >cpu timers. > > If so, maybe that code should be fixed. Where exactly in /proc would > I find the getrusage() info of another process?
Just from /proc/[pid]/stat. (fs/proc/array.c::do_task_stat).
> Is there any argument > that disclosing it to everyone is safe? Or is it just that no one has > ever given the security considerations much thought up till now?
I guess it keeps falling in the "too theoretical" category. It can be protected by policy, but default is open.
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