Re: /bin/ls: cannot read symbolic link /proc/$$/exe: Permissiondenied

[Andreas Schwab]

Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx> writes:

>  On Mon, Aug 16, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
>> 
>> For some reasons ls -l /proc/$$/exe doesnt work all time for me,
>> with 2.6.8.1 on ppc64. Sometimes it does, sometimes not. No pattern.
>> A few printks show that this check in proc_pid_readlink() triggers
>> an -EACCES:
>> 
>>         current->fsuid != inode->i_uid
>> 
>> proc_pid_readlink(755) error -13 ntptrace(11408) fsuid 100 i_uid 0 0
>> sys_readlink(281) ntptrace(11408) error -13 readlink
>
> A better one, clear both new fields, just in case.

memset?

Andreas.

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