Re: [PATCH]: proc: export a processes resource limits via proc/<pid>

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 10:00 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> Hey there-
> 	Currently, there exists no method for a process to query the resource
> limits of another process.  They can be inferred via some mechanisms but they
> cannot be explicitly determined.  Given that this information can be usefull to
> know during the debugging of an application, I've written this patch which
> exports all of a processes limits via /proc/<pid>/limits.  Tested successfully
> by myself on x86 on top of 2.6.23-rc2-mm1.


since this information, by it's nature, is security sensitive, I would
really really strongly suggest that you make this restricted to those
processes that can ptrace the victim only... (which is basically "same
user or root")

Making this world readable is very much a bad thing to do