Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
>  > While I think of it, on a semi-related note, how close is ps(1) to being
>  > not-setgid with both procfs & sysctl's?
> 
> It's setgid() so that it can read the environ, args, proctitle of other
> processes.
> 
> Just to get process info, it doesn't need it at all, for the liver kernel
> case.

However, the source code requires it anyway.  8-)



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