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Re: Process hiding in linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (egmont@FAZEKAS.HU)
Wed Mar 22 19:40:58 2000

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Date:         Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:11:29 -0000
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Hi!

> /proc/pid allows strange tricks (2.3.49):

/proc/pid has strange things in 2.2 too. I've reported that
to the kernel list shortly before 2.2.0 was released. The
hole is still present in 2.2.14 :(
See here:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/Year-1998/1998-49/0208.html

> pavel@bug:~/misc$ ps aux | grep grep

Try this: ls -l /proc/self

Regards:
Egmont Koblinger

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