Hi, On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:01:12PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Wed 08 Sep 2010 01:38:25 +0200, a écrit :
> > - portinfo is privileged. > > Err, for other processes, yes, but for one's own processes,no. > > > The information available from proc through libps OTOH can be > > accessed by every user. > > Which might be questionable actually. I know it's just the number of > ports, nothing more, but it seems odd to me to add an interface just > for this small part of information which you can fetch yourself for > your own processes. Well, there are some merits to such a like of thinking, as Shapiro could tell you. (OMG confinement...) However, here we are talking about a UNIX-like system, where all the other process information is already considered public (which is why proc provides such functionality in the first place) -- and to me it seems best to be consistent here... -antrik-
