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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: SPS - a useful replacement for ps(1)  (but....)
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 15:16:34 EDT
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In article <121@hslrswi.UUCP> robert@hslrswi.UUCP (Robert Ward) writes:

>One solution, suggested by Jeffrey Mogul, is to renice sps only for root.
>This also means that sps need not be a setuid program.

*Need* not, admittedly: however, that means that /dev/drum, /dev/mem and
/dev/kmem all need to be generally readable.  And I seem to remember that
that wouldn't be a good idea ... or am I wrong?

							Kay.
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