Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:37:34 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.dk>, Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ps on 4.0-current Message-ID: <19991123183733.A21142@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199911240013.dAO0DQQ83185@orthanc.ab.ca>; from "Lyndon Nerenberg" on Tue Nov 23 17:13:25 GMT 1999 References: <19991123235742.A4913@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <199911240013.dAO0DQQ83185@orthanc.ab.ca>
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In the last episode (Nov 23), Lyndon Nerenberg said: > After you verify that this change isn't going to break things that > assume they can see the *argv list via ps(1). I.e. lightning bolts > that do 'kill -MUMBLE `ps -ax|grep foo`'. Which may not be elegant > style, but sometimes is the only workable solution. That won't be affected, because anyone that has kill rights to the process will also see the full processname. Now that I think about it, I can't come up with a case where this is really bad. If you're doing ps'es with intent to kill arbitrary processes (in the name of debugging or whatever), you're probably already root. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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