Re: [MiNT] Was: /proc, will be: /sys

[josephus <catbird@airmail.net>]

Thomas Binder wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 08:41:36PM +0100, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:
> > Right, and also I never saw any *nix behave like that. :)
> 
> AFAIR, Solaris < 2.6 required root privileges to read process
> information.

  HPUX does not.   10.20  <10.30> 11.00 .    I worked on the systems
  building the compilers for the HP V-Class computers using Convex
  technology; these being Convex compilers.   PS has various switches
  on HP.  I remember thinking it was weird, being posix.  But I did
  not look at the man or the spec.  But "ps -ef" was the common way
  we used it.  I was NOT root.  It would show me different views
  of the running processes and the displayed information.  Since
  I was configuring the compilers for non root usage,  it made more
  sense.   To get root HPUX uses SUID:  su command
  And one command was run as root UID=NOBODY.     It was thought 
  that unrestricted rooot would allow users to modify other machines.
  Remember that we were configuring the system so users could write
  applications of any kind.

   josephus

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> 
> Thomas
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