On 21 April 2012 03:25, Kurt H Maier <khm-suckl...@intma.in> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 02:52:17AM +0300, Ivan Kanakarakis wrote: > > dah > > > > $ ps e -C ii | grep -o "IIPASS=[^ ]*" > > IIPASS="foobar" > > I am mildly convinced that other users cannot see env data with ps -e. >
a test user here (Linux) can see the processes but _not_ the environment $ ps --version procps version 3.2.8 also the man 1p ps says: At one time a format was included to display the environment array of the process. This was deleted because there is no portable way to display it. > I am also vaguely determined that on linux this information comes from > /proc/$PID/environ and is thus controlled by that file's mode. > > If not, we should write a better ps. > > > -- *Ivan c00kiemon5ter V Kanakarakis* >:3