"Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unless someone snuck it in when I wasn't looking, this has been
> missing for ages - /proc does not reveal the umask of a process.
> Sometimes that would be interesting.
>
> Both psinfo_t and pstatus_t have at least one int's worth of pr_filler,
> so there's a place to put it if one wanted to (which it should go in
> perhaps depending on whether one wished to conceal it given the different
> permissions?). And aside from the header file, I gather it would take all of
> oh, about one more line of code in prsubr.c.
>
> I whipped up a "pumask" command that would report the umask of a process
> using libkvm, but that's generally an evil thing to have to use. (I think it
> would work on a crash dump too, given that it takes command line options
> for namelist, corefile, swapfile; but I'm not so sure how to dig the info out
> of a plain old core dump, which might be more typical of the p* commands.)
True: there's a long-standing RFE for this feature:
5003454 RFE: provide pumask
Rainer
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