Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #2839
Simon Kenyon (simon@koala.ie)
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:27:32 -0000 (GMT)
> The sendmail solution (kludge? at least on Linux :) requires write access to
> /dev/kmem which only
> root can do. It would be a lot cleaner if you could indeed modify the cmdline
> via the /proc
> filesystem. I really like the idea, especially when programming with threads; ps
> should be more
> useful if you could easily "rename" threads without root privileges. It sure
> beats seeing 20 ps
> entries with the original command line..
in 4.2bsd (at least) the environment is/was writable, so a proc can overwrite its
command line arguments to achieve the same effect. is this not how sendmail does
it?
--
simon
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