Re: procfs permissions on 2.6.x

[Andi Kleen]

viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Why on the earth do we ever want to allow chown/chmod on procfs in the first
> place?

It's useful to stop other people from reading your environment
or command line.

-Andi

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