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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:01:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> What we need is to decide what kind of access control do we really want on
> /proc/<pid>/task.  That's it.

I don't think any controls at all. The real control should then be on the
/proc/<pid>/task/<tid> access, which should be the same as the /proc/<pid>
controls (except for thread <tid> rather than thread <pid>, of course)

		Linus
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