Re: [PATCH] Obtain number of ports in proc and libps

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 01:55:48AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net, le Thu 09 Sep 2010 01:38:36 +0200, a écrit :
> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:01:12PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net, le Wed 08 Sep 2010 01:38:25 +0200, a
> > > écrit :

> > > > The information available from proc through libps OTOH can be
> > > > accessed by every user.
> > > 
> > > Which might be questionable actually.  I know it's just the number
> > > of ports, nothing more, but it seems odd to me to add an interface
> > > just for this small part of information which you can fetch
> > > yourself for your own processes.
> > 
> > Well, there are some merits to such a like of thinking, as Shapiro
> > could tell you. (OMG confinement...)
> > 
> > However, here we are talking about a UNIX-like system, where all the
> > other process information is already considered public (which is why
> > proc provides such functionality in the first place) -- and to me it
> > seems best to be consistent here...
> 
> Err, unices tend to avoid exposing too much information about other
> processes. Quite a few files of /proc/self are o-r on Linux for
> instance.

Yes, /proc contains some sensitive information. General information
about resource usage etc. however is visible to anyone through
ps&friends. Why would you want to treat the number of ports any
different than say memory consumption, or number of threads?...

-antrik-