Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:41:58 +0100 | From | Daniel Reichelt <> | Subject | Re: procfs: boot- and runtime configurable access mode for /proc/<pid> dirs |
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> Keeping u/g/o inside kernel is horrible.
Why exactly? Since it's only a char and not char[] I don't see the disadvantage over int or a define or whatever. Of course I could always change that if that's a de-facto standard I just didn't know about.
> What is the usecase? Content of /proc/* is identical.
Use-case is to isolate process information from other users' or groups' eyes, e.g. with 550 the output of ps aux only lists processes of the groups your user is a member of.
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