From: daw@cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] getrusage sucks
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:13:41 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dl2qh5$and$1@taverner.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1131736199.5758.27.camel@mindpipe
Lee Revell wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 05:06 +0000, David Wagner wrote:
>> Probably only super-user should be permitted to read the usage information
>> about other processes.
>
>Why restrict it to root? Why not just prevent users from reading other
>users rusage. How could it be a security hole for joeuser's process be
>able to read the rusage of joeuser's other processes?
Sorry; you're absolutely right. I agree. I overlooked that case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-11 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-10 22:34 [PATCH] getrusage sucks Claudio Scordino
2005-11-11 5:06 ` David Wagner
2005-11-11 19:09 ` Lee Revell
2005-11-11 19:13 ` David Wagner [this message]
2005-11-12 17:45 ` How to quickly detect the mode change of a hard disk? Hui Cheng
2005-11-13 15:10 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-16 18:58 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-11-18 19:41 ` Hui Cheng
2005-11-19 23:44 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-22 15:39 ` Hui Cheng
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-10 23:47 [PATCH] getrusage sucks Hua Zhong (hzhong)
2005-11-11 0:23 ` Claudio Scordino
2005-11-11 0:32 ` Magnus Naeslund(f)
2005-11-11 1:11 ` Claudio Scordino
2005-11-11 13:30 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-11 22:38 ` Claudio Scordino
2005-11-11 23:23 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-11 23:02 ` Chris Wright
2005-11-11 23:44 ` David Wagner
2005-11-12 0:53 ` Chris Wright
2005-11-12 6:37 ` David Wagner
2005-11-11 23:58 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-11 23:43 ` Claudio Scordino
2005-11-11 23:49 ` dean gaudet
2005-11-12 1:10 ` Chris Wright
2005-11-13 1:34 ` Claudio Scordino
2005-11-15 16:56 ` Claudio Scordino
2005-11-11 23:08 ` Claudio Scordino
2005-11-11 23:41 ` David Wagner
2005-11-15 1:08 ` Peter Chubb
2005-11-11 23:49 Hua Zhong (hzhong)
2005-11-15 18:25 linux
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