Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268439AbUILFAb (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:00:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268445AbUILFAb (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:00:31 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:10371 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268439AbUILFAX (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:00:23 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:00:13 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Albert Cahalan Cc: Roger Luethi , Stephen Smalley , Andrew Morton OSDL , lkml , Albert Cahalan , "Martin J. Bligh" , Paul Jackson , James Morris , Chris Wright Subject: Re: [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information Message-ID: <20040912050013.GC2660@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Albert Cahalan , Roger Luethi , Stephen Smalley , Andrew Morton OSDL , lkml , Albert Cahalan , "Martin J. Bligh" , Paul Jackson , James Morris , Chris Wright References: <20040908184130.GA12691@k3.hellgate.ch> <1094730811.22014.8.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <20040909172200.GX3106@holomorphy.com> <20040909175342.GA27518@k3.hellgate.ch> <1094760065.22014.328.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <20040909205531.GA17088@k3.hellgate.ch> <20040909212507.GA32276@k3.hellgate.ch> <1094942212.1174.20.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094942212.1174.20.camel@cube> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1186 Lines: 28 On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 17:25, Roger Luethi wrote: >> I forgot to mention that you can see the remnants of that approach in >> : I used two bits of the field ID to define per-field >> access restrictions (NPROC_PERM_USER, NPROC_PERM_ROOT). On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:36:53PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Besides the low-security and high-security choices, > I'd like to see a medium-security choice. > low: everybody sees everything > medium: everybody sees something; privileged user sees all > high: must be privileged > This might mean that asking for stuff like EIP and WCHAN > causes you to see fewer processes. > If partial info is returned for a process, I'd like to > also get a bitmap of valid fields. Special "not valid" > values are a pain to deal with. That's an interesting observation. Perhaps the union of the mmu and nommu fields should be nominally reported alongside a bitmap of the useful fields? -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/