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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Kingsley Cheung <kingsley@aurema.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Trivial Patch] Bad tgid and tid lookup for /proc
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:09:09 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040312005401.DD4032C733@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:51:10 +1100." <20040209135110.H17768@aurema.com>

In message <20040209135110.H17768@aurema.com> you write:
> All,
> 
> On 2.6.2, one can do the following, which is clearly wrong:
> 
> gen2 02:49:45 ~: cat /proc/1/task/$$/stat
> 1669 (bash) S 1668 1669 1669 34816 1730 256 1480 6479 12 4 8 5 5 17 15 0 1 0 
8065 3252224 451 4294967295 134512640 134955932 3221225104 3221222840 429496014
4 0 65536 3686404 1266761467 3222442959 0 0 17 0 0 0
> gen2 02:50:44 ~: ls /proc/1/task
> 1

Patch was mangled, and IMHO wasn't exactly trivial.  As I understand
it, you could access any task under /proc/xxx/task.  Your patch seems to
make it that you can access any task under /proc/xxx/task if xxx is a
thread group leader.

A little confused,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-12  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-09  2:51 [Trivial Patch] Bad tgid and tid lookup for /proc Kingsley Cheung
2004-03-11 22:09 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-03-14 22:46   ` Kingsley Cheung

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