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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:45:43 +0000
Subject: [KJ] Re: [PATCH] Improved getrusage
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Claudio Scordino wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> A couple of months ago we discussed the possibility of improving the getrusage 
> syscall to read usage information about tasks belonging to the same owner 
> (not just about current and children).
> 
> After an extensive discussion on the mailing list, some of us agreed about the 
> following patch. Some others, instead, said that it is too permissive. 

How about using security_ptrace?  After all, if you can ptrace it, you 
can make it call getrusage...  But add-hoc addition of "it is the same 
owner" code sounds bad for LSMs.

--Andy
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