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    SubjectRe: [take 3] Use pid in inotify events.
    On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 03:57:09PM +0100, Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz) wrote:
    > > John & I intentionally did not add the pid field when writing inotify
    > > for reasons of security and questionable need. It also stinks to have
    > > to add a pid field to the event structure if that field is seldom
    > > used.
    >
    > ...plus the permission check was quite strange. We don't normally try
    > to hide PIDs, and 'equal uid' is very non-standard test. can_ptrace()
    > is normally used for such stuff...

    That's what Reobert suggested as a security measure. Expect this
    decision will not be described in details, why it is good or bad.

    I'm prefectly fine without this check either.

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    Evgeniy Polyakov


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