Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ls -l /proc/1/exe -> Permission denied | From | Joakim Tjernlund <> | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:49:17 +0200 |
| |
Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote on 2014/07/18 14:58:30: > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Joakim Tjernlund > <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se> wrote: > > Trying to real /proc/<pid>/exe I noticed I could not read links not > > belonging to my user such as: > > jocke > ls -l /proc/1/exe > > ls: cannot read symbolic link /proc/1/exe: Permission denied > > > > Is this expected? > > Why do you think this is unexpected?
It only shows the full path to the executable, compare with comm which shows basename(app).
I have an idea for qemu-user which needs to identify which processes are running /usr/bin/qemu-<arch> and which are not so it knows how to munge different /proc/ files.
Jocke
| |