Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:35:29 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information
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On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:41:30PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> A few notes:
> - Access control can be implemented easily. Right now it would be bloat,
>   though -- the vast majority of fields in /proc are world-readable
>   (/proc/pid/environ being the notable exception).
> - Additional process selectors (e.g. select by UID) are not hard to
>   add, either, should there ever be a need.
> - There are a few things I'm not sure about: For instance, what is a good
>   return value for mm_struct related fields wrt kernel threads? I picked
>   0, but ~(0) might be preferable because it's distinct.
> Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>

Any chance you could convert these to use the new vm statistics
accounting?


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