From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265058AbUE0TOp (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 15:14:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265075AbUE0TOo (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 15:14:44 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:28626 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265058AbUE0TOl (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 15:14:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 21:12:43 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: William Lee Irwin III , "Cef (LKML)" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: [announce/OT] kerneltop ver. 0.7 Message-ID: <20040525191243.GL5215@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <20040523215027.5dc99711.rddunlap@osdl.org> <200405241553.44114.cef-lkml@optusnet.com.au> <20040524060007.GN1833@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040524060007.GN1833@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > Please try the patch I just posted which eliminates the need to be root. > Non-root is allowed to profile kernel? That allows it to get some knowledge what other processes are doing. Potential security hole? Okay, when wchan is publicly visible in /proc this is probably not too big deal. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms