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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, <james-p@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <aarapov@...>, <akpm@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] Don't truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 characters
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 3:29 pm

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

No, not quite.  Peter explains why "cat /proc/self/mem" gets EIO,
but you were seeing "cat /proc/other/mem" get ESRCH: that's from
the stringent !MAY_PTRACE || !ptrace_may_attach checks.

Hugh
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Re: [PATCH -mm] Don't truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 cha..., Mikael Pettersson, (Wed Sep 19, 10:54 am)
Re: [PATCH -mm] Don't truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 cha..., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Sep 19, 11:59 am)
Re: [PATCH -mm] Don't truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 cha..., Mikael Pettersson, (Wed Sep 19, 2:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH -mm] Don't truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 cha..., Hugh Dickins, (Wed Sep 19, 3:29 pm)