Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (924 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 09:37 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Which ran fine except it didn't tell me what processes .. and numbers weren't 
> really what I wanted, so I thought why not list the exe.  I thought to
> add "ls -L $i" in the above to each line -- but get permission probs:
>     ls: cannot read symbolic link 1/exe: Permission denied
> Running as root, of course, no prob.
> This is 'normal' behavior as I have come to expect, BUT,
> in paying attention to the permissions on the symlink:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct  2 09:10 exe
> The permissions don't agree with what the kernel is doing.

They do,  permissions presented for links in /proc (and most virtual
filesystems) are bogus.

You can read the "cmdline", which is a better target [I think] for what
you are looking for.


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