On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 at 23:42, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I don't have a clue why anyone would want to hide processes, and make > their own lives more difficult.
Oh, there are plenty of usescases, I'm sure. And I for one am thankful that this process hiding option made it into the kernel. Or, to answer in another way: why would anyone want to see other peoples processes? > The check with hidepid is can you ptrace the process. I expect there > is something with those sgid processes that keeps you from ptracing > them. Indeed, I cannot strace the process. But still, I wonder if this is intended behaviour. > Of course if you don't like the silly behavior you can always disable > it. :-) C. -- BOFH excuse #412: Radial Telemetry Infiltration -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
