Joakim Tjernlund <[email protected]> writes: > Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> wrote on 2014/07/19 22:21:59: >> >> Joakim Tjernlund <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > Trying to real /proc/<pid>/exe I noticed I could not read links not >> > belonging to my user such as: >> > jocke > ls -l /proc/1/exe >> > ls: cannot read symbolic link /proc/1/exe: Permission > denied >> > >> > Is this expected? >> >> Yes. This information is considered private. > > I don't understand why though.
It would allow bypassing access restrictions. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, [email protected] GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
