Slacker News Slacker News logo featuring a lazy sloth with a folded newspaper hat
  • top
  • new
  • show
  • ask
  • jobs
Library
← Back to context

Comment by hollerith

7 days ago

File mode bits prevent processes not running as root from reading much of the info in /proc.

2 comments

hollerith

Reply

mbreese  7 days ago

I don’t know… with a stock Linux, the information a user can get from top (via /proc, I assume), is pretty thorough. You can at least get a list of running programs, which by itself could be valuable.

  • hollerith  7 days ago

    Good point. I withdraw my comment.

Slacker News

Product

  • API Reference
  • Hacker News RSS
  • Source on GitHub

Community

  • Support Ukraine
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • GiveWell Charities