Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site warwick.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!warwick!kay From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs Subject: Re: SPS - a useful replacement for ps(1) (but....) Message-ID: <2288@flame.warwick.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 15:16:34 EDT Article-I.D.: flame.2288 Posted: Mon Jul 8 15:16:34 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 20:35:26 EDT References: <121@hslrswi.UUCP> Reply-To: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) Organization: VLSI Group, Warwick University, UK Lines: 15 Xpath: warwick flame flame ubu 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. -- "In a world without rational structure, even the most bizarre events must eventually take place." -- Philip Avalon, "On the Resurrection of Reagan" ... mcvax!ukc!warwick!flame!kay