Re: [PATCH] proc: add "personality" to process status file

Kees Cook
2008-10-02T22:56:54Z

Heya Randy,

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 03:46:31PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Kees Cook wrote:
> > There is no sane way to query the personality flags of arbitrary process
> > from userspace. This adds the flags to the /proc/$pid/status file.
>
> The patch seems to be missing an update to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt !
> Please add that. TIA.

The /proc/pid/status file is "self documenting" (in theory), and doesn't
have separate documentation in proc.txt yet. If I had touched the
"stat" file, I would have included and update, since I was the last to
document that file. ;)

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team