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A netlink-based user-space crypto API

Posted Oct 22, 2010 1:54 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: A netlink-based user-space crypto API by jengelh
Parent article: A netlink-based user-space crypto API

It is long past time that /proc/*/cmdline were not world-readable.

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Posted Oct 22, 2010 9:09 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Unfortunately there are a *lot* of scripts out there that depend on 'ps -o args' and similar commands working for users other than the current one. Really a lot. This would, of course, break them all.