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

[Roland McGrath]

> Well, ptrace_may_access() protects only get_wchan/eip/esp, but
> not utime/stime.

Oh, sorry.  I misread the code.  As I said, I leave it to the security
folks to decide what the appropriate constraints are.  All the mechanisms
for accessing the same information should just be consistent.  So perhaps
this is indeed fine.


Thanks,
Roland
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