Re: [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information

William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09T00:35:48Z

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:41:30PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> A few notes:
> - Access control can be implemented easily. Right now it would be bloat,
> though -- the vast majority of fields in /proc are world-readable
> (/proc/pid/environ being the notable exception).
> - Additional process selectors (e.g. select by UID) are not hard to
> add, either, should there ever be a need.
> - There are a few things I'm not sure about: For instance, what is a good
> return value for mm_struct related fields wrt kernel threads? I picked
> 0, but ~(0) might be preferable because it's distinct.
> Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>

Any chance you could convert these to use the new vm statistics
accounting?

-- wli