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

[Olaf Hering]

 On Tue, Aug 17, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> 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?

perhaps too expensive, no idea.

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