Re: proc pid perm patch, 2.1.108?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 11 Jul 1998 22:53:18 +0100 (BST)

> There are potential security issues here if admins, sensibly doing as
> little as root as possible, check for unwanted user processes from a
> normal user account.

I've nailed it ok in 2.0.35pre7 I think (this btw has the nice quirk that
you can change 1 function to get the state of seeing nobody elses process)

It'll get submitted to Linus for 2.1.x soon

Alan

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