Re: [PATCH] Read THREAD_CPUTIME clock from other processes.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 11:50 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I think the constraints on /proc/.../stat reflect the most considered
> judgement of the security folks.  I suspect that the lack of constraint on
> /proc/.../schedstat reflects the scheduler folks just having failed to
> consider the same issues.  IMHO all access to the equivalent kinds of
> information should have the same security constraints. 

FWIW I'm fine with adding a PTRACE_MAY_READ constraint on schedstat.
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