From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 23 16:38:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781F415494 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:38:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA21216; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:37:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:37:34 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: David Malone , Brian Somers , Poul-Henning Kamp , Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ps on 4.0-current Message-ID: <19991123183733.A21142@dan.emsphone.com> References: <19991123235742.A4913@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <199911240013.dAO0DQQ83185@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199911240013.dAO0DQQ83185@orthanc.ab.ca>; from "Lyndon Nerenberg" on Tue Nov 23 17:13:25 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 23), Lyndon Nerenberg said: > After you verify that this change isn't going to break things that > assume they can see the *argv list via ps(1). I.e. lightning bolts > that do 'kill -MUMBLE `ps -ax|grep foo`'. Which may not be elegant > style, but sometimes is the only workable solution. That won't be affected, because anyone that has kill rights to the process will also see the full processname. Now that I think about it, I can't come up with a case where this is really bad. If you're doing ps'es with intent to kill arbitrary processes (in the name of debugging or whatever), you're probably already root. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message