Re: [RFC PATCH] proc: making "limits" world readable

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:20:07 -0400
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:55:47PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:56:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:10:55 +0200
> > > Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I'd like to have the /proc/<pid>/limits file world readable,
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > > 
> > 
> > having this will ease the task of system management for large install
> > bases and where root privileges might be restricted
> > 
> > jirka
> > 
> I don't see a problem with making this file world readable.  Doing so would be
> in keeping with most of the other stats bearing files in /proc/<pid>.  The only
> reason I didn't make it world readable was because the getrlimit sematics
> previously kept limit information private to the process, and I didn't want to
> deviate from that.  But as long as we're not making it world writeable I think
> we're ok.
> 
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> 

hm, OK, I can't really think of any realistic problem with exposing limits.

The original patch had no signoff.  Please resend, with a changelog
which includes a *good* rationale for making the change.  For example,
a use case.