RE: reading links in proc - permission denied

2003-06-14 Thread linda w.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Are you sure that 'top' uses that 'exe' ? --- 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.

reading links in proc - permission denied

2003-06-06 Thread linda w.
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 /