Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!uunet!bria!mike From: mike@bria.commodore.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: command line shown by ps Message-ID: <480@bria> Date: 23 Feb 91 04:45:49 GMT References: <3075@risky.Convergent.COM> Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike Distribution: usa Organization: MGI Group International, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 14 Followup-To: Keywords: In an article, scottl@convergent.com (Scott Lurndal) writes: >This data is kept in the u area for the process at exec(2) time. >Most operating systems don't allow a program to write to the u area; >therefore you cannot change it. Untrue. Any process that can read /unix and read and write /dev/kmem and the swap device can modify the proc table and/or u block of another process. -- Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc., Los Angeles| Opinions stated are not even my own. Title of the week: Systems Engineer | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember folks: If you can't flame MS-DOS, then what _can_ you flame?