Re: Can access to /proc/$PID/exe be relaxed?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 21.07.09 19:06, Denys Vlasenko (vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Lennart Poettering<mzxreary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Unless I am mistaken a process currently needs CAP_SYS_PTRACE to read
> > /proc/$PID/exe for abritrary processes.
> 
> You mean "readlink'?

Yes.

Lennart

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