Re: procfs: boot- and runtime configurable access mode for /proc/<pid>dirs

[Daniel Reichelt]

> Keeping u/g/o inside kernel is horrible.

Why exactly? Since it's only a char and not char[] I don't see the
disadvantage over int or a define or whatever. Of course I could always
change that if that's a de-facto standard I just didn't know about.


> What is the usecase? Content of /proc/* is identical.

Use-case is to isolate process information from other users' or groups'
eyes, e.g. with 550 the output of ps aux only lists processes of the
groups your user is a member of.
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