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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
