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Re: setuid root programs in hurd dist
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
Subject: |
Re: setuid root programs in hurd dist |
Date: |
05 Jun 2002 15:09:29 -0700 |
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Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
> ids -- Does pid2task to query arbitrary processes auth ports.
> Seems like a questionable need. If that info should be public,
> we could just have the proc server publish the id lists it got
> in its auth transactions (which it doesn't save now).
> ps -- Needs task ports to query some kinds of info.
> w -- I'm not sure that it really needs it.
For all of these, I think the right thing is to extend the proc
server. The point of proc_getprocinfo is to provide "whatever ps
needs".