Re: ls -l /proc/1/exe -> Permission denied

[Richard Weinberger]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Joakim Tjernlund
<joakim.tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Trying to real /proc/<pid>/exe I noticed I could not read links not
> belonging to my user such as:
> jocke >  ls -l /proc/1/exe
>              ls: cannot read symbolic link /proc/1/exe: Permission denied
>
> Is this expected?

Why do you think this is unexpected?

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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