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On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 17:19 -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > This patch changes all 3 remaining maps files to be readable > only for the file owner. There have been privacy concerns. > > Fedora Core 4 has been shipping with such permissions on > the /proc/*/maps file already. General system monitoring > tools seldom use these files. changing /maps to 0400 breaks glibc; there are cases where this would lead to /proc/self/maps to be not readable (setuid like apps) so this needs a more elaborate fix. - 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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