Re: [PATCH] getrusage sucks

From: David Wagner
Date: Fri Nov 11 2005 - 18:44:42 EST


Chris Wright wrote:
>It's already available via /proc w/out protection. And ditto via posix
>cpu timers.

If so, maybe that code should be fixed. Where exactly in /proc would
I find the getrusage() info of another process? Is there any argument
that disclosing it to everyone is safe? Or is it just that no one has
ever given the security considerations much thought up till now?
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