> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Are you sure that 'top' uses that 'exe' ?
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Not at all...in fact was told it doesn't. Apparently, though,
the listed permissions on the links are arbitrary and the system
fairly well ignores them.
I'm misunderstanding something about links in proc.
I thought 'ps', 'top' et al used /proc to display processes, command lines,
etc.
Since neither ps nor top are suid root, they are running with my uid
permissions.
However, if I do "ls -l" on /proc//exe, I get a
"ls: cannot read symbolic link /