Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:56:24 -0700 | | From | Kees Cook <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] proc: add "personality" to process status file |
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Heya Randy,
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 03:46:31PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Kees Cook wrote: > > There is no sane way to query the personality flags of arbitrary process > > from userspace. This adds the flags to the /proc/$pid/status file. > > The patch seems to be missing an update to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt ! > Please add that. TIA.
The /proc/pid/status file is "self documenting" (in theory), and doesn't have separate documentation in proc.txt yet. If I had touched the "stat" file, I would have included and update, since I was the last to document that file. ;)
-Kees
-- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team
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