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

William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12T05:00:31Z

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 17:25, Roger Luethi wrote:
>> I forgot to mention that you can see the remnants of that approach in
>> <linux/nproc.h>: I used two bits of the field ID to define per-field
>> access restrictions (NPROC_PERM_USER, NPROC_PERM_ROOT).

On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:36:53PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Besides the low-security and high-security choices,
> I'd like to see a medium-security choice.
> low: everybody sees everything
> medium: everybody sees something; privileged user sees all
> high: must be privileged
> This might mean that asking for stuff like EIP and WCHAN
> causes you to see fewer processes.
> If partial info is returned for a process, I'd like to
> also get a bitmap of valid fields. Special "not valid"
> values are a pain to deal with.

That's an interesting observation. Perhaps the union of the mmu and
nommu fields should be nominally reported alongside a bitmap of the
useful fields?

-- wli