Re: ps under FreeBSD

["J. Mallett" <jmallett () NewGold NET>]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:56:34PM +1200, Andrew Turner wrote:
> On 18 May 2002 at 18:57, Jakub Filonik wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I was playing with ps on FreeBSD with kern.ps_showallprocs=0 and I was
> > surprised when I have seen that I may see info about running process, if I
> > know it's ID
>
> kern.ps_showallprocs only disables ps showing all processes.
> For example, try running "ps -ax" with kern.ps_showallprocs=0 and, as 
> a user, you only get prosesses you own.

It's much improved in 5.0-CURRENT, as the security.bsd.show_other_uids (I
think) oid.

> > I think it may be seen as bug. What do You think?

It's definitely just "the implementation scope is limited, and has been
expanded in CURRENT".
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