Re: BUG: fork do not copy /proc/<PID>/cmdline permissions

["Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Agri wrote:

> I expected from fork to make a rather complete copy of a process,
> but it does not copy /proc/<PID>/cmdline access permissions.
> Therefore, the only way (at least i know) to hide all args of
> processes is to start every program within shell script:
> bash -c 'chmod /proc/$$/cmdline; exec userprogramm ...'
>
> Tested on 2.6.5.
>
> Agri

Huh? /proc/$PID/cmdline doesn't exist until after a task is
created. What you did was create a task, change whatever
is in proc, then exec (which doesn't change the PID).

How would you expect fork() to know that you wanted to
do this? The permissions in /proc are file permissions.
They have nothing to do with a task.

Also, any task can read its own command-line without using
/proc at all.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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