On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 16:23 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
They do, permissions presented for links in /proc (and most virtual filesystems) are bogus.
:-( !!!!! Why bother putting special permission handling code in the kernel when the fs-attrs could take care of it and allow more flexibility.
Eh? You do realize that permissions works this way on links in most cases? Permissions on links are always bogus; it is the permissions of the context and the target object which matter, and these are thinks the file-system in many cases cannot know. You should experiment with symbolic links.
You can read the "cmdline", which is a better target [I think] for what you are looking for.
--- Some yes, sometimes not -- If I really want to know what binary a program is running and not what it wants to 'tell me' ....I have so many scripts that call sudo for trivial little things like this -- just because it had to be done some special way....sigh.
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